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Title: Wealth, Wages and Wedlock: Explaining the College Gender Gap Reversal

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: We study the role of changes in the wage structure and expectations about marriage in explaining the college gender gap reversal. With strongly diminishing marginal utility of wealth and in the presence of a gender wage gap, single women have a greater incentive than single men to invest in education. Marriage market distortions tend to depress the overall benefit of education for women relative to men. We parameterize the model using US census data for the cohort born in 1950 and show that it can generate a reversal. The most important driving force is the decline in marriage rates.

Url: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjoe.12233/full

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Authors: Reijnders, Laurie S.M.

Periodical (Full): The Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Issue: 2

Volume: 120

Pages: 537-562

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Gender, Other

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