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9: Nick Paumgarten’s online dating story: “Looking for Someone,” New Yorker, July 4, 2011.

12: Young Chinese woman’s online profile: Quoted in Evan Osnos, “The Love Business,” New Yorker, May 14, 2012.

14: Lori Gottlieb quotes: Lori Gottlieb, “Marry Him!” The Atlantic, March 2008 and Lori Gottlieb, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough (New York: Dutton, 2010).

15: “I tire of articles … ”: From “jh40” on http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/marry-him/6651/#.

17–18: Nobel Prize committee quote: nobelprize.org.

19–21: Study of New York State pharmacies: Alan Sorensen, “Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Retail Markets for Prescription Drugs,” Journal of Political Economy 108 (August 2000): 833–850. ...

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