TY - JOUR AU1 - Belot, Michèle. AB - Abstract: 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. TI - Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions JF - Journal of Human Resources DA - 2013-04-28 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-wisconsin-press/dating-preferences-and-meeting-opportunities-in-mate-choice-decisions-1PFNIGdUAa SP - 474 EP - 508 VL - 48 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -