Relacionado con el post previo, aca hay un articulo de Ray Fisman al respecto (si, los economistas somos invasores- imperialistas querdaria mejor todavia- y podemos estudiar practicamente cualquier fenomeno humano, solo necesitamos que haya una 'toma de decision' y ahi estamos):
"While models of dating have proliferated in the years since Becker's pioneering work, we have not progressed very much in testing his theories, or even answering the most basic dating question, for Becker or anyone else: What, exactly, makes someone desirable? There are, of course, the answers that get regular reinforcement: Men value looks; women value brains, money, and success. But do these old-fashioned stereotypes continue to hold today (if they were true to begin with)?Source: Este post de Greg Mankiw.
To figure this out, you could do "field work" at a local bar to observe the choices people make in real dating situations or sift through archived marriage announcements to see who chooses whom. But observed dating and marriage choices are at least as much a result of whom we meet as what we prefer. Doctors marry doctors, lawyers marry lawyers, and economists marry economists, probably not because they actually prefer to do so, but because those are the people they meet in daily life. The same may be true of the tendency to marry someone of one's own race or religion."
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