Education Level and Mating Success: Undercover on Tinder
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returns to education; mating success; assortative mating; dating apps; Tinder;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
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