We measured gender differences in preferences for mate income ex-ante to interaction (“income attraction”) in a field experiment on one of China's largest online dating websites. To rule out unobserved factors correlated with income as the basis of attraction, we randomly assigned income...

It seems rather intuitive that customers who pay higher prices for otherwise identical products/services should be more valuable to the firm. However, we show that in dynamic pricing situations with limited capacity (airlines, hotels, advertisers, sports/concert venues, etc.) this intuition...