Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions
利用独特数据，研究了人们在关系初期如何选择约会对象，发现男女都看重年龄、体重等身体特征，且选择具有同型匹配倾向，而相遇机会对约会提议有重要影响。
Much empirical evidence shows that female and male partners look alike along a variety of attributes. It is, however, unclear how this positive sorting comes about because marriage is an equilibrium outcome arising from a process that entails searching, meeting, and choosing one another. This study takes advantage of unique data to shed light on the forces driving choices at the earliest stage of a relationship. Both women and men value physical attributes, such as age and weight, and reveal that their dating choices are assortative along several traits. Importantly, meeting opportunities have a substantial role in determining dating proposals.