What makes you click?-mate preferences in online dating

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 393-427

  Hitsch, Günter J ^a   Hortaçsu, Ali ^b   Ariely, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dating; Marriage; Mate preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952307614     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-010-9088-6     Document Type: Article

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