1. What is the search model? Explain using example on how the search model is used in economics.

2. What is assortative matching? What are some of the reasons why people match assortatively? Lastly, how do the assortative matching patterns change for education in the US over the last fifty years?

3. Discuss in detail two differences in preferences between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people in matching assortatively, including whether LGBTQ people would sort more or less assortatively in age, race, or education compared to cisgender heterosexual people for each preference.

Then, discuss in detail two differences in constraints between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ in matching assortatively, including whether LGBTQ people would more or less assortatively in age, race, or education compared to cisgender heterosexual people for each constraint.