A sufficient condition for uniqueness is identified on the preferences in the marriage problem, i.e. two-sided one-to-one matching with non transferable utility. For small economies this condition is also necessary. This class of preferences is broad and they are of particular relevance in economic applications.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

We define the median stable matching for two-sided matching markets with wages and prove constructively that it exists. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C71, C78.

The Northwest Coast stretches 1,800 km from Cape Mendocino, California, to Yakutat Bay, Alaska. It is usually divided into three or four subregions (Fig. 1), with the Oregon and northern California coasts the most ambiguous in their assignment to the Northwest Coast. In the nineteenth century, this was linguistically one of the most diverse regions of North America, with eight language families...

The Mangalore and Udupi region on the south-west coast of India is characterized by small west-flowing rivers (150-250 km in length) originating in the Western Ghats (up to 1940 meters above sea level (m asl)) and joining the Arabian Sea. The area experiences a humid tropical climate with frequent, high-intensity rainfall (4000 mm annual average). Nevertheless, there is a shortage of water duri...

Stable isotope paleoclimatology of the earliest Eocene using kimberlite-hosted mummified wood from the Canadian Subarctic B. A. Hook, J. Halfar, Z. Gedalof, J. Bollmann, and D. Schulze Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B1, Canada Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada Department of Geog...

The US Pacific Coast has been largely free of fishery collapses that have occurred elsewhere, but the situation appears to be changing. Here, we show results from the first systematic study of demersal fishes along the US Pacific Coast. Using data from a quarter-century long, fishery-independent, coast-wide trawl survey, we document fundamental shifts in the demersal fish assemblage along the U...