This study examines whether information asymmetry during the matchmaking period affects women’s choice of spouse. The 2010 amendment of the Marriage Brokers Business Management Act requiring international marriage brokers in South Korea to provide more information about their South Korean male clients to prospective foreign brides in brokered marriages provided an opportunity to probe this question. Using the National Survey of Multicultural Families 2015, we employed the difference-in-differences method. Following the 2010 amendment, foreign women in brokered marriages were more likely to marry a more-educated Korean man and were less likely to work in low-skilled jobs after marriage.

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减少婚前信息不对称：来自韩国的证据

本研究考察了婚介期间的信息不对称是否会影响女性的配偶选择。2010 年修订的《婚姻经纪人业务管理法》要求韩国的国际婚姻经纪人向中介婚姻中的准外国新娘提供更多有关其韩国男性客户的信息，这为探讨这个问题提供了机会。使用 2015 年全国多元文化家庭调查，我们采用了差异中的差异方法。根据 2010 年的修正案，通过中介婚姻的外国女性更有可能嫁给受过更高教育的韩国男性，婚后从事低技能工作的可能性更小。