伴侣偏好的演变：来自加拿大、法国、印度和美国的婚姻广告的证据

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106950

Quentin Lippmann , Khushboo Surana

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利用婚恋广告中的文字，我们收集了一个新的数据集来描述伴侣偏好随时间和空间的演变。通过分析1950年至1995年间在加拿大、法国和印度发布的广告，我们发现，在这两个西方国家，人们对经济标准的偏好急剧下降，而对个性特征的偏好却在印度最为普遍。通过1995年覆盖美国和加拿大不同地区的广告，我们发现人们对个性特征的要求始终高于经济标准。我们提供的证据表明，随着时间的推移，这些结果不太可能由成分效应、父母的角色或不断变化的社会规范所驱动。我们表明，随着时间的推移，女性的变化尤其明显，并伴随着西方国家劳动力参与方面的性别差距缩小。我们讨论了随着时间的推移理解分类交配进化的含义。

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The evolution of partner preferences: Evidence using matrimonial ads from Canada, France, India and the United States

Using the text from matrimonial ads, we assemble a novel data set to describe the evolution of partner preferences over time and space. Analyzing ads published in Canada, France and India between 1950 and 1995, we show that stated preferences for economic criteria have fallen sharply in favor of personality traits in the two Western countries while they remain the most prevalent in India. Using ads covering various regions from the US and Canada in 1995, we show that personality traits are consistently more demanded than economic criteria. We provide evidence that these results are unlikely to be driven by the composition effects over time, role of parents or changing social norms. We show that the changes over time are particularly strong for women and accompany narrowing gender gaps in labor force participation in Western countries. We discuss the implications for understanding the evolution of assortative mating over time.

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.