2014/12/01 by Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics #Family Dynamics and Relationships #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
paper · doi:10.1086/677191
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.