Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence From a Speed Dating Experiment
通过速配实验数据，直接观察个体决策，发现女性更看重智力和种族，男性更看重外貌，且男性不喜欢比自己聪明或有野心的女性。
We study dating behavior using data from a Speed Dating experiment where we generate random matching of subjects and create random variation in the number of potential partners. Our design allows us to directly observe individual decisions rather than just final matches. Women put greater weight on the intelligence and the race of partner, while men respond more to physical attractiveness. Moreover, men do not value women's intelligence or ambition when it exceeds their own. Also, we find that women exhibit a preference for men who grew up in affluent neighborhoods. Finally, male selectivity is invariant to group size, while female selectivity is strongly increasing in group size.