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The Economics of Dating Apps

Ones and Tooze

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Is There a Matching Market?

Economist Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won a Nobel Prize for their work on developing algorithms to optimize these kinds of matching markets. Dating adds another dimension to this because commonly in matching models, it's a question of shifting from single to married. And dating is certainly one way of introducing more learning to that process. A technology that enhances people's ability to find new partners will tend to make the original match less important than what you may discover throughdating.

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