Nonparametric estimation of matching efficiency and elasticity in a marriage agency platform: 2014–2025

IF 1.8 4区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Suguru Otani
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Abstract

This paper examines monthly matching efficiency in the Japanese marriage market using novel data from IBJ, the country’s largest structured matching platform. Unlike administrative or dating app data, IBJ provides full search, dating, and matching logs based on verified profiles and confirmed engagements. Users are highly selected into serious marriage search via costly screening. Covering 3.3% of national marriages annually, I estimate time-varying matching functions using a nonparametric approach. Matching efficiency triples between 2014 and 2025, with diverging elasticities indicating increasingly asymmetric responsiveness. Results show how digital intermediation reshapes partner search in modern marriage markets.
婚介平台中配对效率与弹性的非参数估计:2014-2025
本文利用日本最大的结构化配对平台IBJ的新数据,研究了日本婚姻市场的月度配对效率。与管理或约会应用程序数据不同,IBJ基于经过验证的个人资料和确认的约定提供完整的搜索、约会和匹配日志。通过昂贵的筛选,用户被精心挑选出来进行严肃的婚姻搜索。覆盖每年3.3%的全国婚姻,我使用非参数方法估计时变匹配函数。2014年至2025年期间,效率将增加两倍,弹性差异表明响应能力日益不对称。研究结果显示,数字中介如何重塑现代婚姻市场中的伴侣搜索。
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Economics Letters
Economics Letters ECONOMICS-
CiteScore
3.20
自引率
5.00%
发文量
348
审稿时长
30 days
期刊介绍: Many economists today are concerned by the proliferation of journals and the concomitant labyrinth of research to be conquered in order to reach the specific information they require. To combat this tendency, Economics Letters has been conceived and designed outside the realm of the traditional economics journal. As a Letters Journal, it consists of concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research.
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