Journal Article
Dating preferences and meeting opportunities in mate choice decisions
Authors
Publication date
2013
Summary
Much empirical evidence shows that female and male partners look alike along a variety of attributes. It is, however, unclear how this positive sorting comes about because marriage is an equilibrium outcome arising from a process that entails searching, meeting, and choosing one another. This study takes advantage of unique data to shed light on the forces driving choices at the earliest stage of a relationship. Both women and men value physical attributes, such as age and weight, and reveal that their dating choices are assortative along several traits. Importantly, meeting opportunities have a substantial role in determining dating proposals.
Published in
Journal of Human Resources
Volume and page numbers
48 , 474 -508
ISSN
16
Links
http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1599694~S5
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