This article is based on one of the chapters in my thesis. I thank my advisors Jeremy Fox, Ali Hortacsu, and Casey Mulligan for their help and encouragement. I also thank the editor, two anonymous referees, Martin Browning, Marianne Simonsen, and Yoram Weiss for their valuable comments and suggestions that greatly improved this article. Finally, I thank the Danish Council for Independent Research in Social Sciences and the Cycles, Adjustment, and Policy Research Unit (CAP) at Aarhus University for financial support.
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MALE AND FEMALE MARRIAGE RETURNS TO SCHOOLING
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015
DOI: 10.1111/iere.12100
© (2015) by the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association
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Bruze, G. (2015), MALE AND FEMALE MARRIAGE RETURNS TO SCHOOLING. International Economic Review, 56: 207–234. doi: 10.1111/iere.12100
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- Issue published online: 23 JAN 2015
- Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015
- Manuscript Revised: OCT 2013
- Manuscript Received: AUG 2012
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A collective marriage matching model is estimated and calibrated to quantify the share of returns to schooling that is realized through marriage. The predictions of the model are matched with detailed Danish household data on the relationship between schooling and wage rates, the division of time and goods within the household, and the extent to which men and women sort positively on several traits in marriage. Counterfactual analysis conducted with the model suggests that Danish men and women are earning on the order of half of their returns to schooling through improved marital outcomes.
