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- Marriage and Online Mate-Search Services: Evidence From South Korea
--- This paper has been replaced by the following two papers: “Marriage in Online Dating Services” and “Matching, Learning and Marriage.”
“Marriage in Online Dating Services”
investigates who benefits from using such services to find a spouse and whether
marriages resulting from online dating exhibit a degree of homogamy similar to
that of marriages formed through other search methods. [under review]
“Matching, Learning and Marriage”
empirically studies the learning process and marital preferences of people in
multiple dating stages and examines alternative matching processes that may
improve efficiency in dating markets. [under revision]
- Plastic Surgery: Investment in Human Capital or Consumption? (with Keunkwan Ryu)
cited in USA Today (March, 2011)
supplementary document (click)
- Education's Role in China's Structural Transformation (with Ben Malin)
- Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets (with Muriel Niederle)
cited in Freakonomics blog (Aug, 2011), Slate (Feb, 2012)
- Program Evaluation and Heterogeneity in Treatment Effects (with Azeem Shaikh) -- preliminary draft is available upon request
- All for One? Family Size and Children's Educational Distribution Under Credit Constraints (with Jeanne Lafortune) -- preliminary draft is available upon request
- Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration (with Daiji Kawaguchi) -- preliminary draft is available upon request
- Can the Job Market for Economists be Improved? (with Fedor Iskhakov, Terence Johnson, David McArthur, John Rust, and Joel Watson) preparation for a handbook chapter of Market Design, Oxford Press-- preliminary draft is available upon request