Bipartite choices

Abstract

This piece in the Milestones series is dedicated to the paper coauthored by David Gale and Lloyd Shapley and published in 1962 under the title "College admissions and the stability of marriage" on the American Mathematical Monthly. Keywords Two-sided matching • Stable marriage problem • College admission problem • Bipartite graph Mathematics Subject Classification 91B68 JEL Classification C78 • B23 • D47 Milestones This series celebrates key contributions that are at least 50 years old. A milestone is widely acknowledged as a seminal paper that has aged into a classic."What you choose also chooses you.