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2 July  2005. 26 September 2005.  Eric Rasmusen, Erasmuse@indiana.edu.
Http://www.rasmusen.org.  
 
  
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 {\bf Signalling  Marriageability:  A Classroom Game for  Chapter 11} 
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Each student is a Man or a Woman with a random and secret wealth level $W$ distributed  between 0 and 100.  The wealth levels  if there are ten people are   0, 10,  20, 30, 50,  60, 80,  90,  100, and  100. The instructor will choose from these values, repeating them if there are  more than ten students and  omitting some values if the   number of students  is not divisible by ten. 

  A person's  wealth level is secret,  because the society has a taboo on telling your wealth level to someone else. Nonetheless, everybody is very interested in wealth because everyone's objective is to marry someone with high wealth.  
 

 Each year, each student first  simultaneously writes down  how much to spend on clothes that year. Then,    in whatever order  it happens, students pick  someone else to pair up with temporarily. Both actions are publicly revealed-- you may show people your scoresheet.  In the fifth year, the pairings become permanent: marriage.      

Your payoff is a concave function  the original wealth minus    clothing expenditures of you and your spouse (if you have one). Clothing has no value in itself. Thus, if $i$ is married to $j$ his payoff is, letting $C_i$ and $C_j$ denote the cumulative clothing purchases over the five periods,  
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 U_i = log (W_i - C_i + W_j- C_j)   
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Table  1  shows some of the possible payoffs  from this function.  
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Remaining  Family Wealth & 0  & 1 & 2 &   5 & 10 & 25 & 50 &100 &150 &200   \\
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 Utility & -$\infty$ & 0 & 0.7 &   1.6 & 2.3 &3.2 & 3.9 &4.6 &  5.0 &  5.3  \\
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{\bf Table 1: Marriage Values}
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 The first time you play the game, the only communication allowed is ``Will you pair with me?'' and ``Yes'' or ``No''. These pairing are not commitments, and can be changed even within the period. 

If there is time, the game will be played over with new wealths and with unlimited communication. 

  

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{\bf Instructor's Notes   }

The efficient outcome is for  nobody to buy any clothes (a laugh line).  
 
   If the instructor wishes, he can tell some male students that they must be females for the purposes of the game, and modify their names accordingly (e.g., Henry becomes Henrietta, Konichi becomes Koniko). It is not necessary, and perhaps worse, for the number of men and women to be the same. The instructor may wish to point out that a certain number of people must become ``old maids'' or ``old bachelors''.  


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Name: 

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{\bf  Scoresheet for ``Signalling  Marriageability''}
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 Note that you will write down your clothing purchases {\bf in year t} first, and only add them up at the end. 

Do not write down your wealth until the end. 
  
 
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Year   &    $C_{it}$ (your clothing) &  Your Sweetheart's Name &  $C_{it}$ (your sweetheart's clothing)\\
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4 &    &   &   \\
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5 &    &   &   \\
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Total &    &  ---  &   \\
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 Your wealth: \\

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   Your cumulative spending: \\


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   Your spouse's wealth:\\

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  Your spouse's cumulative spending: \\

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  $  W_i - C_i + W_j- C_j =   $ \\

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 $ U_i = log (W_i - C_i + W_j- C_j)= $  


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You have wealth of  0  

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You have wealth of 10   

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You have wealth of 20  

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You have wealth of 30  

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You have wealth of 50  

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You have wealth of 60  

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You have wealth of 80  

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You have wealth of 90  



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You have wealth of 100  


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You have wealth of 100  




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