| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP5949
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| DP5949 Pension Systems and the Allocation of Macroeconomic Risk |
| Lans Bovenberg; Harald Uhlig
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| 发表日期 | 2006-11-19
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| 出版年 | 2006
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. We assess the 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 outplayed 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 age), the role of preferences is more substantial, but never dominant. Despite this, preferences have a part when we observe a match, i.e., when two individuals propose to one another. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Mate selection
Assortative mating
Marriage market
Speed dating
Randomized experiments
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5949
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534780
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推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Lans Bovenberg,Harald Uhlig. DP5949 Pension Systems and the Allocation of Macroeconomic Risk. 2006.
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