Personality Traits and the Marriage Market

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred
• 署名单位: Maastricht University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/677191
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1271-1319
• 关键词: model; earnings; search; tests; rank; pay

摘要

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.