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Title: Where's the Love? A Reduced Form Non-Parametric Method for Estimating Preference Ranking

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: Marriage matching functions have been extensively used to study the behavior of themarriage market under a variety of restrictive assumptions. In this paper, we willoutline an alternative method of type-based preference estimation, and apply it to UScensus data from the years 1960 and 2000. This approach is based upon the Gale-Shapely "Deferred Acceptance" algorithm, and realized through the use of SimulatedAnnealing (a variant of Metropolis Monte Carlo). We estimate preferences based onincome and education, and explain our plans to further re ne our method, as well asdiscuss the trajectory of future work.

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Authors: Creelman, Chance

Institution: Saint Francis Xavier University

Department: Economics

Advisor: Teng Wah Leo

Degree: B.A. with Honors

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Methodology and Data Collection

Countries: United States