Working papers:
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market
Pierre A. Chiappori; Sonia Oreffice; Climent Quintana-Domeque
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- Title:
- Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market
- Author(s):
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Chiappori, Pierre A.
Oreffice, Sonia
Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Date:
- 2011
- Type:
- Working papers
- Department:
- Economics
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10481
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Papers
- Part Number:
- 1011-06
- Publisher:
- Department of Economics, Columbia University
- Publisher Location:
- New York
- Abstract:
- We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness and socioeconomic characteristics that can be summarized by a one-dimensional index combining these various attributes. We show that under a (testable) separability assumption, the indices are ordinally identified. We estimate the model using data from the PSID. Our separability tests do not reject. We find that among men, a 10% increase in BMI can be compensated by a higher wage of around 3%. Similarly, for women, an additional year of education may compensate up to three BMI units.
- Subject(s):
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Economic theory
Social research
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