Personality Traits and the Marriage Market

By Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon. Journal of Political Economy, 2014

225 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4e8732c90877fd63955292b9e4459d3285560471

Citations in the corpus

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• Cupid’s Invisible Hand: Social Surplus and Identification in Matching Models (2015, unknown): “This issue is addressed by Dupuy and Galichon (2014) for the Choo and Siow model, using the theory of extreme value processes; they also propose a test of the number of relevant dimensions for the matching problem.”