TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality traits and the marriage market
AU - Dupuy, Arnaud
AU - Galichon, Alfred
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1086/677191
DO - 10.1086/677191
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84920365136
SN - 0022-3808
VL - 122
SP - 1271
EP - 1319
JO - Journal of Political Economy
JF - Journal of Political Economy
IS - 6
ER -