The mediation of matchmaking:a comparative study of gender and generational preference in online dating websites and offline blind date markets in Chengdu  

作　　者：Hannah Rose Kirk Shriyam Gupta 

机构地区：[1]Oxford Internet Institute,University of Oxford,1 St Giles’,Oxford OX13JS,UK [2]Busara Center for Behavioral Economics,c/o Innov8 Saket District Centre,New Delhi 110017,India [3]Yenching Academy,Peking University(2018–20),5 Yiheyuan Rd,Haidian District,Beijing 100871,China

出　　处：《The Journal of Chinese Sociology》2022年第1期35-64,共30页中国社会学杂志（英文）

基　　金：the Dean’s Research Grant awarded by Yenching Academy,Peking University.

摘　　要：Online dating has modernized traditional partner search methods,allowing individuals to seek a partner that aligns with their preferences for attributes such as age,height,location,or education.Yet traditional forms of partner selection still exist,with con-tinued parental involvement in the matching process.In this paper,we exploit differ-ent matchmaking methods with varying degrees of youth autonomy versus parental involvement.We use a unique dataset collected in Chengdu,China,where profiles from the blind date market(n=158)capture parental preferences and profiles from an online dating website(n=500)capture individual preferences.Regarding gender,we find that men generally display a desire for women younger,shorter,and less educated than themselves,while women desire older and taller men of the same education as themselves.With regards to parental influences,we find parents specify a narrower range of accepted partner attributes.Further,we find an interaction effect between gender and generational influences:the preferences of parents advertising their daughters on the blind date market show a greater discrepancy in attribute preferences to the online daters than parents advertising their sons.

关 键 词：Online dating Blind date market Gender differences Generational differences China 

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