Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

Arnaud Dupuy and Alfred Galichon ()
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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

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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.

Keywords: Matching; Marriage; Assignment; Assortative Matching; Canonical Correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10
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Published in Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, Forthcoming

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