Gender Differences in Online Dating: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Literature Review <s> Females Males <s> Although online dating has become an important strategy in finding a romantic partner, academic research into the antecedents of online dating is still scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate (a) the demographic predictors of online dating and (b) the validity of two opposite hypotheses that explain users' tendency to use the Internet for online dating: the social compensation and the rich-get-richer hypotheses. We presented 367 single Dutch Internet users between 18 and 60 years old with an online questionnaire. We found that online dating was unrelated to income and educational level. Respondents between 30 and 50 years old were the most active online daters. In support of the rich-get-richer hypothesis, people low in dating anxiety were more active online daters than people high in dating anxiety. <s> BIB001 </s> Gender Differences in Online Dating: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Literature Review <s> Females Males <s> We estimate mate preferences using a novel data set from an online dating service. The data set contains detailed information on user attributes and the decision to contact a potential mate after viewing his or her profile. This decision provides the basis for our preference estimation approach. A potential problem arises if the site users strategically shade their true preferences. We provide a simple test and a bias correction method for strategic behavior. The main findings are (i) There is no evidence for strategic behavior. (ii) Men and women have a strong preference for similarity along many (but not all) attributes. (iii) In particular, the site users display strong same-race preferences. Race preferences do not differ across users with different age, income, or education levels in the case of women, and differ only slightly in the case of men. For men, but not for women, the revealed same-race preferences correspond to the same-race preference stated in the users’ profile. (iv) There are gender differences in mate preferences; in particular, women have a stronger preference than men for income over physical attributes. <s> BIB002 </s> Gender Differences in Online Dating: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Literature Review <s> Females Males <s> In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does not mediate the observed racial preferences among white men and white women. White men and white women with a college degree are more likely to contact and to respond to white daters without a college degree than they are to black daters with a college degree. <s> BIB003
Participation …use online dating more  . BIB002 . …have longer account lifetimes BIB003 . …visit online dating sites more often BIB001 . No gender differences in time spent on website BIB003 . BIB001 . One possible reason for this gender imbalance is that across numerous IT contexts men outnumber women  . Additionally, male users exhibit a positive attitude towards online dating, valuing its efficiency to meet people  [46], even though they might see those who use these service as desperate  .