Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

Arnaud Dupuy (1) , Alfred Galichon (2)

1 RMS - Reims Management School
2 ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po)

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a singledimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate these weights. We argue that this estimation technique is inconsistent and suggest some solutions.

Keywords: Matching; Marriage; Assignment; Assortative Matching; Canonical Correlation

Domains: Economics and Finance

Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon. Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark. Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, Forthcoming. ⟨hal-03568988⟩