Personality Traits and the Marriage Market

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Report , Other literature type , Research 01 Jan 2012Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2021 Netherlands, France English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:SSRN Electronic Journal (eissn: 1556-5068,

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Authors: Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred;

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2162812 , 10.2139/ssrn.2167565 , 10.1086/677191 , 10.48550/arxiv.2102.07476

arXiv: 2102.07476

handle: 10419/67187

Personality Traits and the Marriage Market

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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.

72 pages, 5 tables

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Netherlands, France

Related Organizations

French National Centre for Scientific Research
France
National Foundation of Political Science
France
Maastricht School of Management
Netherlands
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Maastricht University
Netherlands

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Keywords

m ultidimensional sorting,saliency analysis,marriage market,personali ty traits,continuous logit, matching market, General Economics (econ.GN), J21, J23, marriage market, FOS: Economics and business, Biologische Daten, Matching, agents' attributes, J31, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Niederlande, Multidimensional sorting, Saliency Analysis, marriage market, personality traits, continuous logit, m ultidimensional sorting, saliency analysis, marriage market, personali ty traits, continuous logit, marriage, saliency analysis, Economics - General Economics, ddc:330, continuous logit, continuous logit, multidimensional sorting, marriage market, saliency analysis, personality traits, multidimensional sorting, Persönlichkeitspsychologie, personality traits, Bildungsniveau, D3, Ehe, jel: jel:J21, jel: jel:J23, jel: jel:J31, jel: jel:D3

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