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Title: Human Capital Investments, Differential Fecundity, and the Marriage Market

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This paper provides a model that can explain why women go to college at higher rates but have lower average incomes than men in the US and other countries. Differential fecundity and a general-equilibrium marriage-market effect form the basis of our explanation. The model can also explain the relationships between age at marriage and personal midlife income for men and for women as well as the relationship between age at marriage and spousal midlife income for women. Our explanations for these facts are supported by empirical evidence and calibration results.

Url: https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/msuecw/2018_007.html

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Authors: Zhang, Hanzhe

Series Title: Michigan State University Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 2018-7

Institution: Michigan State University

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Publisher Location: East Lansing, Michigan

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other

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