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Effect of Online Dating on Assortative Mating: Evidence from South Korea

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Online dating services have increased in popularity around the world, but a lack of quality data hinders our understanding of their role in family formation. This paper studies the effect of online dating services on marital sorting, using a novel dataset with verified information on people and their spouses. Estimates based on matching techniques suggest that, relative to other spouse search methods, online dating promotes marriages that exhibit weaker sorting along occupation and geographical proximity but stronger sorting along education and other demographic traits. Sensitivity analysis, including the Rosenbaum Bounds approach, suggests that online dating's impact on marital sorting is robust to potential selection bias. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Soohyung Lee, 2016. "Effect of Online Dating on Assortative Mating: Evidence from South Korea," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(6), pages 1120-1139, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:japmet:v:31:y:2016:i:6:p:1120-1139
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    1. Yoonyoung Cho & Soohyung Lee, 2021. "How to Improve Worker–Firm Matching: Evidence from a Temporary Foreign Worker Market," Korean Economic Review, Korean Economic Association, vol. 37, pages 419-454.
    2. Behnaz Bojd & Hema Yoganarasimhan, 2022. "Star-Cursed Lovers: Role of Popularity Information in Online Dating," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 41(1), pages 73-92, January.
    3. Boller, Daniel & Lechner, Michael & Okasa, Gabriel, 2021. "The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning," Economics Working Paper Series 2104, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science.
    4. Anton A. Cheremukhin & Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria & Antonella Tutino, 2023. "Marriage Market Sorting in the U.S," Working Papers 2023-023, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, revised 25 Sep 2024.
    5. Xu, Yujing & Yang, Huanxing, 2019. "Targeted search with horizontal differentiation in the marriage market," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 31-62.
    6. Cho, Yoon Y. & Lee, Soohyung, 2021. "How to Improve Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from a Temporary Foreign Worker Market," IZA Discussion Papers 14328, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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