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Title: A Marriage-Market Perspective on Risk-Taking and Career Choices

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: Women are less likely than men to be in "risky" occupations, that is, those that exhibit large within-occupation wage dispersion. We first demonstrate that a new theoretical channel-the competitive structure of the marriage market-may incentivize both men and women to choose riskier careers with lower wage returns. We then show that a unifying factor-women's relative inability to reap the benefits of a risky career due to their shorter reproductive span-can help rationalize a set of gender differences in labor-market and marriage-market outcomes. We provide evidence that supports the importance of the marriage market in risky career choices and their gender differences.

Url: https://hanzhezhang.github.io/research/1702MarriageCareer.pdf

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Authors: Zhang, Hanzhe; Zou, Ben

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Pages: 65

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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