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Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability
Anderberg, Dan - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889233
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Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability
Anderberg, Dan - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870268
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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation
Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020
one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … the introduction of short school years in Germany in 1966-67, which compressed the education phase without affecting the … the birth of the first child mainly for academic-track graduates. This highlights that education policies might not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270851
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Marriage market equilibrium, qualifications, and ability
Anderberg, Dan; Bagger, Jesper; Bhaskar, Varsha; … - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990019
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973131
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018
length of upper-secondary education in Swedish vocational schools allows us to compare females who graduated into the onset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951944
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Male investment in schooling with frictional labour and marriage markets
Bonilla, Roberto; Kiraly, Francis - 2019
We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained sequential job search, and can choose to improve their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119529
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Marriage market equilibrium, qualifications, and ability
Anderberg, Dan; Bagger, Jesper; Bhaskar, V.; Wilson, Tanya - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992448
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Male Investment in Schooling with Frictional Labour and Marriage Markets
Bonilla, Roberto - 2020
We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained sequential job search, and can choose to improve their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847076
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Marriage and Employment Returns to Female Education
Hoseini, Mohammad - 2023
This paper develops a method to jointly estimate the marriage and employment returns to education using a frictionless … and unaffected by secular trends in education, marriage, and the female labor market. The estimation relies on widely … marriage gain in recent years. The cross-country evidence suggests that female education has a positive employment return …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358308