Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67302 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6942
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate these weights. We argue that this estimation technique is inconsistent and suggest some solutions.
Subjects: 
matching
marriage
assignment
assortative matching
canonical correlation
JEL: 
C78
D61
C13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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