Showing posts with label matchmaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matchmaking. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Becoming a matchmaker

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  The company built around the marriage pact is now offering matchmaking tools to the public: Matchbox . "Matchbox is the matching al...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Dating and (or versus) the search for lasting relationships

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 Two related  stories caught my eye this week. One lamented the difficulty of making a meaningful match through online dating, and thought a...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Arranged marriage, in India, on television

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The Guardian and the Indian Express have the story about a tv show about arranged marriage, a venerable institution that is becoming contro...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Once-a-year dating match services for college students

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Valentine's Day is a good day to take note of dating services that operate only once a year, particularly since one of them, Datamatch ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Evolution of the online dating business

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The NY Times and Consumer Reports bring us up to date on dating.  And (at the end of this long post) making dating great again in the new p...
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Monday, December 26, 2016

Matchmaking nudges and noodges in the internet age

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The internet dating site JSwipe has a program called  ParentPay . The website has a banner reading (subtly) "We want grandchildren.&qu...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Georgia plans national matchmaking service as marriage rate falls (the country, not the U.S. state)

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The Guardian has the story: Georgia plans national matchmaking service as marriage rate falls National database of singletons proposed to...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Matching with (sexual) contracts, by Arcidiacono, Beauchamp, and McElroy

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Quantitative Economics, Volume 7, Issue 1 (March 2016) Terms Of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model Of Sex And Matching Peter Arcidiaco...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Tomorrow at Stanford Hillel

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I'll join Ken Arrow tomorrow, to help celebrate Stanford Hillel's 50th anniversary: Community Open House: Something for Everyone...
Monday, February 8, 2016

A WSJ reporter prepares for Valentines Day by interviewing economists about dating sites

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Here's a WSJ interview that mentions, among other things, Soo Lee and Muriel Niederle's experiment with virtual roses: How Econom...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Matchmaking among the Haredi

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Ynet has a story:  Ultra-orthodox matchmaking: everything it's best not to know "Among the traditional Haredi public – not the...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

A privacy-preserving market design intervention to avoid Tay Sachs disease

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Scott Kominers draws my attention to a 1987 news note in JAMA, with a privacy-sensitive market design for keeping people's sensitive g...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Matchmakers for religious schools in Israel

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Assaf Romm writes "The following article in Hebrew tells the story of the Haredi (ultra orthodox jewish) "yeshiva ktana" ...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Patent denied for the idea of matchmaking

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Those of you who may occasionally have tried to play matchmaker will be relieved to know that you are not infringing on a patent for that p...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Matchmaking and courtship for the rich and busy

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If attending Ted talks isn't working for you... The High-End Matchmaking Service for Tycoons But "“A lot of older women we don’...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Marriage markets in China

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Brook Larmer writes in the NY Times about the changing marriage market:  The Price of Marriage in China  (I like the URL better than the hea...