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Project Citation: 

Chiappori, Pierre-André, Iyigun, Murat, and Weiss, Yoram. Replication data for: Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113330V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We present a model in which investment in schooling generates two kinds of returns: the labor-market return, resulting from higher wages, and a marriage-market return, defined as the impact of schooling on the marital surplus share one can extract. Men and women may have different incentives to invest in schooling because of different market wages or household roles. This asymmetry can yield a mixed equilibrium with some educated individuals marrying uneducated spouses. When the labor-market return to schooling rises, home production demands less time, and the traditional spousal labor division norms weaken, more women may invest in schooling than men. (JEL I21, J12, J24, J31)

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JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I21 Analysis of Education
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials


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