9月23日发展经济学workshop
2015年秋季学期

主讲人：Qin Yu , Assistant Professor of NUS (National University of Singapore)
 Housing Prices and Mating Preferences: Evidence from Online Daters (with Yongheng Deng and Hongjia Zhu)
主持教师：张晓波，席天扬，李力行
上课时间：9月23 日(周三)下午2:00-3:30
国发院中国经济研究中心 中心 小教室
助教邮箱：zhuwu0513@163.com

This paper investigates the impact of housing prices on mating preferences. Matching specified preferences of online daters with prefecture city level housing prices in China, we find that rising housing prices, as a positive wealth shock to the local natives, affects mating preferences for both genders in different ways: female users have stronger preferences towards male home owners, while male users narrow down their preferred ranges for female's height. We also find that housing prices affect the relative preferences between attributes: as housing price goes up, females have stronger preference on home ownership relative to male's height, while males are the opposite.