Replication data for: Partner Choice, Investment in Children, and the Marital College Premium

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Pierre-André Chiappori; Bernard Salanié; Yoram Weiss

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Project Citation:

Chiappori, Pierre-André, Salanié, Bernard, and Weiss, Yoram. Replication data for: Partner Choice, Investment in Children, and the Marital College Premium. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113039V1

Project Description

Summary: We construct a model of household decision-making in which agents consume a private and a public good, interpreted as children's welfare. Children's utility depends on their human capital, which depends on the time their parents spend with them and on the parents' human capital. We first show that as returns to human capital increase, couples at the top of the income distribution should spend more time with their children. This in turn should reinforce assortative matching, in a sense that we precisely define. We then embed the model into a transferable utility matching framework with random preferences, a la Choo and Siow (2006), which we estimate using US marriage data for individuals born between 1943 and 1972. We find that the preference for partners of the same education has significantly increased for white individuals, particularly for the highly educated. We find no evidence of such an increase for black individuals. Moreover, in line with theoretical predictions, we find that the "marital college-plus premium" has increased for women but not for men.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: education; Houesholds; marriage

JEL Classification:
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 2008 – 2014 (Cohorts born 1940-1970)

Universe: All white and black adults who are out of school

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data

Collection Notes: The data was downloaded from Ipums

Methodology

Data Source: American Community Surveys, years 2008 to 2014

Unit(s) of Observation: Households,

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