DP20635 The Rise of Online Dating and Heterogamous Marriages

Alexia Bădoiu

We study how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education in the United States. Online dating can, in principle, foster heterogamous unions by broadening users’ exposure to diverse racial and educational groups, or alternatively reduce such unions by enabling more effective preference-based screening. Using data from the American Community Survey and a continuous-treatment difference-in-differences design, we find that online dating platforms

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