TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Neyt, Brecht
AU  - Baert, Stijn
AU  - Vynckier, Jana
        TI  - Job Prestige and Mobile Dating Success: A Field Experiment
        PY  - 2019/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12746
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12746
        AB  - Research exploiting data on classic (offline) couple formation has confirmed predictions from evolutionary psychology in a sense that males attach more value to attractiveness and women attach more value to earnings potential. We examine whether these human partner preferences survive in a context of fewer search and social frictions. We do this by means of a field experiment on the mobile dating app Tinder, which takes a central place in contemporary couple formation. 
Thirty-two fictitious Tinder profiles that randomly differ in job status and job prestige are evaluated by 4,800 other, real users. We find that both males and females do not use job status or job prestige as a determinant of whom to show initial interest in on Tinder. However, we do see evidence that, after this initial phase, males less frequently begin a conversation with females when those females are unemployed but also then do not care about the particular job prestige of employed females.
        KW  - online dating
KW  - job prestige
KW  - partner preferences
KW  - dating apps
KW  - Tinder
        ER  -