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, BMI, health, attitude towards risk and personality traits of spouses. Three important empirical conclusions are drawn. Fi... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
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Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / D3 / J21 / J23 / J31 / multidimensional sorting / saliency analysis / marriage market / personality traits / continuous logit / Ehe / Matching / Biologische Daten / Persönlichkeitspsychologie / Bildungsniveau / Niederlande |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27247516 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67187 |