ArticleSociological science2019
Structure of Online Dating Markets in U.S. Cities.
Article in Sociological science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Classed Pathways to Marriage: Hometown Ties, College Networks, and Life after Graduation.Journal of marriage and the family · 2021Article
- Do Local Sex Ratios Approximate Subjective Partner Markets? : Evidence from the German Family Panel.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Online activity of mosques and Muslims in the Netherlands: A study of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.PloS one · 2021Article
- Location inference for hidden population with online text analysis.International journal of health geographics · 2020Article
- Network Evolution of a Large Online MSM Dating Community: 2005-2018.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
We study the structure of heterosexual dating markets in the United States through an analysis of the interactions of several million users of a large online dating website, applying recently developed network analysis methods to the pattern of messages exchanged among users. Our analysis shows that the strongest driver of romantic interaction at the national level is simple geographic proximity, but at the local level, other demographic factors come into play. We find that dating markets in each city are partitioned into submarkets along lines of age and ethnicity. Sex ratio varies widely between submarkets, with younger submarkets having more men and fewer women than older ones. There is also a noticeable tendency for minorities, especially women, to be younger than the average in older submarkets, and our analysis reveals how this kind of racial stratification arises through the messaging decisions of both men and women. Our study illustrates how network techniques applied to online interactions can reveal the aggregate effects of individual behavior on social structure.
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