Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
General Economics
2021-02-16 v1 Economics
Abstract
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 households survey containing information about education, height, BMI, health, attitude toward risk and personality traits of spouses.
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@article{arxiv.2102.07476,
title = {Personality Traits and the Marriage Market},
author = {Arnaud Dupuy and Alfred Galichon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07476},
year = {2021}
}
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72 pages, 5 tables