How is your dating life going? Not to pry, but maybe it's not you. Maybe it's economics. Instead of looking for lucious curves or bulging . . . . um. . . .wallets, should you be looking at supply and demand curves? The economists would have us believe so. Perhaps you're fighting the wisdom of social scientists. If you're turned on as we are by this topic please come to Prague Spring's next meeting.
This topic was inspired by a Slate article on speed-dating data that the authors claim show male and female dating preferences
The above study was cited in a NYT article on the economics of dating
The NYT article also cited a contradictory study of 22,000 online-dating participants
And, surprisingly, it helps to be attractive as the study cited here shows
All this work of course is based on the pioneering ecnomic work of Gary Becker
Becker won the Noble Prize in Economics in 1992 where he gave this famous lecture summarizing his work
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