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Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

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  • Arnaud Dupuy

    (RMS - Reims Management School)

  • Alfred Galichon

    (ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a singledimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate these weights. We argue that this estimation technique is inconsistent and suggest some solutions.

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  • Arnaud Dupuy & Alfred Galichon, 2012. "Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark," Post-Print hal-03568988, HAL.
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    1. Arnaud Dupuy & Alfred Galichon, 2014. "Personality Traits and the Marriage Market," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 122(6), pages 1271-1319.
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    3. Arnaud Dupuy & Alfred Galichon, 2012. "Personality traits and the marriage market," SciencePo Working papers hal-01070393, HAL.
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