Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: An Economic Analysis of Relationship Preferences in Personal Advertisements

Alan Collins and S. Cameron

Working Papers from Portsmouth University - Department of Economics

Abstract: The problem of matching relationship partners, at the aggregate level, has been modelled mathematically in the important work of Burdett and Coles (1997) and the micro matching problem was earlier studied by Gale & Shapley (1962). In this paper we propose a simple model to analyse individual partner-seeking behaviour, with a view to implementing this on a data set including stated preferences.

Keywords: BEHAVIOUR; MARRIAGE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D00 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997

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