Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market
We construct a marriage market model of matching along multiple dimensions, some of which are unobservable, in which individual preferences can be summarized by a one-dimensional index combining the various characteristics. We show that, under testable assumptions, these indices are ordinally identified and that the male and female trade-offs between their partners’ characteristics are overidentified. Using PSID data on married couples, we recover the marginal rates of substitution between body mass index (BMI) and wages or education: men may compensate 1.3 additional units of BMI with a 1 percent increase in wages, whereas women may compensate two BMI units with 1 year of education.
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2012
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Authors: | Chiappori, Pierre-André ; Oreffice, Sonia ; Quintana-Domeque, Climent |
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Journal of Political Economy. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 120.2012, 4, p. 659-659
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University of Chicago Press |
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