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  • Marriage and Online Mate-Search Services: Evidence From South Korea
              --- previously titled "Preferences and Choice Constraints in Marital Sorting" 

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This paper has been replaced by the following two papers: “Marriage in Online Dating Services” and                             Matching, Learning and Marriage.”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
            [this version - April 2011, under review]
            cited in
USA Today (March, 2011)
            supplementary document (click)
  • Education's Role in China's Structural Transformation (with Ben Malin
           [this version - Aug 2010, revision requested at the Journal of Development Economics]
  • Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets (with Muriel Niederle
          [this version - Oct 2011 Online Appendix, NBER working paper #17340, under review]
          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