Working Papers (recent)

1. Collective Model

Theory

The Micro Economics of Group Behavior: General Characterization (with Ivar Ekeland); published in the Journal of Economic Theory

The Micro Economics of Efficient Group Behavior: Identification (with Ivar Ekeland); published in Econometrica

Local disaggregation of negative demand and excess demand functions (with Ivar Ekeland and Martin Browning); published in the Journal of Mathematical Economics

Efficient intra-household allocations and distribution factors: implications and identification (with François Bourguignon and Martin Browning); published in the Review of Economic Studies

Collective and unitary models: a clarification (with M. Browning and V. Lechene); published in the Review of Economics of the Household

Collective Labor Supply With Children (with Richard Blundell and Costas Meghir) ); published in the Journal of Political Economy

Learning From a Piece of Pie : The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining (with Olivier Donni and Ivana Komunjer); published in the Review of Economic Studies

Distributional effects in household models: separate spheres and income pooling (with Martin Browning and Valérie Lechène); published in the Economic Journal

The Becker-Coase Theorem, Divorce Laws and Marital Instability (with Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss)

Testable implications of Transferable Utility, published in the Journal of Economic Theory

Applications

Collective Labor Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation (with Richard Blundell, Thierry Magnac and Costas Meghir); published in the Review of Economic Studies

Estimating Consumption Economies of Scale, Adult Equivalence Scales, and Household Bargaining Power (with Martin Browning and Arthur Lewbel)

2. Matching and Marriage Market

Divorce, Remarriage and Welfare: A General Equilibrium Approach (with Yoram Weiss); published in the Journal of the European Economic Association

Birth Control and Female Empowerment: An Equilibrium Analysis (with Sonia Oreffice); published in the Journal of Political Economy

Divorce, Remarriage and Child Support (with Yoram Weiss); published in the Journal of Labor Economics

Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market (with Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss); published in the American Economic Review

Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market (with Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss), supplementary material

Matching to Share Risk (with Phil Reny)

An Assignment Model with Divorce and Remarriage (with Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss)

Hedonic price equilibria, stable matching, and optimal transport: equivalence, topology, and uniqueness (with Robert McCann and Lars Nesheim); published in Economic Theory

Fatter Attraction: anthropometric and socioeconomic matching on the marriage market (with Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque) ); forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy

Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium (with Bernard Salanié and Yoram Weiss)

Changing the Rules Midway: The Impact of Granting Alimony Rights on Existing and Newly-Formed Partnerships (with Jeanne Lafortune, Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss)

Matching with a Handicap: The Case of Smoking in the Marriage Market (with Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque)

The Roommate Problem Is More Stable Than You Think (with Alfred Galichon and Bernard Salanié)

3. Risk and Contract Theory

Asymmetric Information In Insurance: General Testable Implications (with Bruno Jullien, Bernard Salanié and Francois Salanié); published in the Rand Journal of Economics

The Welfare Effects of Predictive Medicine; Published In: Insurance: Theoretical Analysis and Policy Implications, Pierre-André Chiappori and Christian Gollier, Ed., MIT Press, 2006

Modeling Competition and Market Equilibrium in Insurance: Empirical Issues (with Bernard Salanié); forthcoming in the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings

Relative Risk Aversion Is Constant: Evidence from Panel Data (with Monica Paiella), published in the Journal of the European Economic Association

Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data (with Jaap Abbring and Tibor Zavadil))

You Are What You Bet: Eliciting Risk Attitudes From Horse Races (with Amit Gandhi, Bernard Salanié and François Salanié)

Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Thai Villages (with Krislert Samphantharak, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Robert Townsend)

4. Econometrics

Identification, Estimation, and Specification Testing Of Nonparametric Transformation Models (with Ivana Komunjer and Dennis Kristensen)

On the Nonparametric Identification of Multiple Choice Models (with Ivana Komunjer)