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The primary objective of this study is to examine the contribution of available information constrained by parents' fields of study to the observed assortative preferences in their children's choice of major. Comparable to panel models, we define within-family transmission functions with 1-to-2...
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 …
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An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over multi-dimensional characteristics. Importantly, the model suggests specific testable assumptions that allow researchers to uncover marginal rates of substitution (MRS) between...
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We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …
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In a static frictionless transferable utilities bilateral matching market with systematic and idiosyncratic payoffs, supermodularity of the match output function implies a strong form of positive assortative matching: The equilibrium matching distribution has all positive local log odd ratios or...
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …
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A pervasive concern with the use of subjective data in choice models is that the data are biased and endogenous. This paper examines the extent to which cognitive biases plague subjective data, specifically addressing 1) whether cognitive dissonance affects the reporting of beliefs, and 2)...
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
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on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … Empowerment ; Principal Component ; Education ; Instrumental Variable …
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