Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: a remark

Arnaud Dupuy () and Alfred Galichon

No 2012/40, Working Papers from Maastricht School of Management

Abstract: In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multi- variate 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.

Keywords: matching; marriage; assignment; assortative matching; canonical correlation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C78 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2012-10
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