Marital Matching Among US Residents: A Comparison by Region of Origin.

The article analyzes how equilibrium sorting takes place in marriages between immigrants in the U.S. from Mexico, Asia, Middle East, Central America, South America, Europe and Africa. It explores the patterns of marital matching that observed between men and women born in the U.S. for comparison purposes. Moreover, it creates a matching algorithm and utilizes the estimated parameters to both isolate the characteristics that drive the matching process.