Journal of Political Economy Vol. 122 No. 6 2014
Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
open access
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 household survey containing information about education, height, body mass index, health, attitude toward risk, and personality traits of spouses.
- DOI
- 10.1086/677191
- Volume
- 122
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1271-1319
- Language
- en
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref