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Erratum: Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market

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  • Pierre-André Chiappori
  • Sonia Oreffice
  • Climent Quintana-Domeque

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We construct a marriage market model of matching along multiple dimensions, some of which are unobservable, in which individual preferences can be summarized by a one-dimensional index combining the various characteristics. We show that, under testable assumptions, these indices are ordinally identified and that the male and female trade-offs between their partners' characteristics are overidentified. Using PSID data on married couples, we recover the marginal rates of substitution between body mass index (BMI) and wages or education: men may compensate 1.3 additional units of BMI with a 1 percent increase in wages, whereas women may compensate two BMI units with 1 year of education.
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  • Pierre-André Chiappori & Sonia Oreffice & Climent Quintana-Domeque, 2020. "Erratum: Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 128(12), pages 4673-4675.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/710838
    DOI: 10.1086/710838
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    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics

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