Personality traits and the marriage market

• Autores: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
• Localización: Journal of Political Economy, ISSN-e 1537-534X, Vol. 122, Nº. 6, 2014, págs. 1271-1319
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.