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Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating

Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is 2015 equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. "2015" assess speed relative importance of preferences and opportunities in dating behaviour, using unique data from a large commercial speed dating agency.

While the speed dating design gives us a direct observation of individual preferences, the random allocation of participants across events generates an exogenous source of variation in opportunities and allows us to identify the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences.

We find that both women and men equally value physical attributes, such as age and weight, and that there is positive sorting along age, height, and education. The role of individual preferences, however, is essex by that of opportunities.

Along some attributes such as occupation, height and smoking opportunities explain almost all the estimated variation in demand. Along other attributes such as agethe role of preferences is more substantial, but never dominant. Despite this, preferences have a part when we observe a match, i. Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp as.

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