Download This PaperA Marriage-Market Perspective of the College Gender Gap
20 Pages Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last revised: 10 Oct 2017
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An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity: On the College Gender Gap
A Marriage-Market Perspective of the College Gender Gap
Courtship as an Investing Game: Labor-Market and Marriage-Market Outcomes by Age by Marriage
An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity
Date Written: October 9, 2017
Abstract
This paper shows how gender-differential career cost can explain why in most of the developed countries women go to college at a higher rate than men but earn less on average. I assume men and women make costly college and career investments but women face an extra cost for career investment because such investment occurs during their fertile period. The extra career cost discourages women from investing in career but surprisingly encourages more women than men to go to college through a general-equilibrium marriage-market channel that results in an endogenously higher college marriage premium for women.
Keywords: college gender gap, gender pay gap, college marriage premium
JEL Classification: C78, D1, I2
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