Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

Arnaud Dupuy () and Alfred Galichon

No 6942, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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 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: assortative matching; assignment; marriage; matching; canonical correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C78 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2012-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ecm and nep-gth
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Published - published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119/120, 375 - 383

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp6942.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark (2021)
Working Paper: Canonical correlation and assortative matching: A remark (2014)
Working Paper: Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: a remark (2012)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp6942

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().