Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate information about agents’ attributes. The first k indices for agents on each side of the market provide the best approximation of the matching surplus by a k-dimensional model. The methodology is applied on a unique Dutch household survey containing information about education, height, body mass index, health, attitude toward risk, and personality traits of spouses.
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2014
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Authors: | Dupuy, Arnaud ; Galichon, Alfred |
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Journal of Political Economy. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 122.2014, 6, p. 1271-1271
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University of Chicago Press |
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