Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter?

Simple item page
dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorGe, S. Q.en
dc.contributor.departmentEconomicsen
dc.date.accessed2014-06-26en
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-27T14:45:40Zen
dc.date.available2014-06-27T14:45:40Zen
dc.date.issued2011-10en
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the sequential college attendance decision of young women and quantifies the effect of marriage expectations on their decision to attend and graduate from college. A dynamic choice model of college attendance, labor supply, and marriage is formulated and structurally estimated using panel data from the NLSY79. The model is used to simulate the effects of no marriage benefits and finds that the predicted college enrollment rate will drop from 58.0% to 50.5%. Using the estimated model, the college attendance behavior for a younger cohort from the NLSY97 is predicted and used to validate the behavioral model.en
dc.description.sponsorshipHeller Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Minnesotaen
dc.identifier.citationSuqin Ge. "Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter?," Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 29, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 773-818. DOI: 10.1086/660774en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1086/660774en
dc.identifier.issn0734-306Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/49143en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660774en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectdynamic-programming modelsen
dc.subjectborrowing constraintsen
dc.subjecteducational-attainmenten
dc.subjectself-selectionen
dc.subjecthigh-schoolen
dc.subjectlaboren
dc.subjectmarketen
dc.subjectchoiceen
dc.subjectheterogeneityen
dc.subjectpreferencesen
dc.subjecteconomicsen
dc.subjectindustrial relations & laboren
dc.titleWomen's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter?en
dc.title.serialJournal of Labor Economicsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
660774.pdf
Size:
840.83 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Main article
Download

Collections

Scholarly Works, Economics
Strategic Growth Area: Policy