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Source: Journal of the European Economic Association
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Blasutto, Fabio |
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Cohabitation vs. Marriage: Mating Strategies by Education in the USA Journal of the European Economic Association published online (7 November 2023). Also: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad065 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: MIT Press Keyword(s): Cohabitation; College Education; College Graduates; Consumption Insurance; Divorce; Education; Education, Higher; Education, Postsecondary; Gender; Household Specialization; Household Structure; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Marriage; Motherhood Penalty; Mothers; Women In this paper, I analyze the determinants of cohabitation, marriage, and divorce in the USA. I first document that college graduates are more likely to marry, and less likely to cohabit and divorce, than non-college educated individuals. To account for these facts within a unified framework, I build and estimate a life-cycle model of partnership formation and dissolution where income processes differ by gender and education. I find that the main driver of education-based differences in mating strategies is that the gender wage gap is larger among college graduates. Since divorce is more costly than ending a cohabitation, marriages tend to be more stable and therefore offer women more protection from human capital depreciation during non-employment. Consequently, marriage is a more effective means of enforcing household specialization. Since college graduates have more room for household specialization, they are more likely to choose marriage. The variance of income shocks, which affects the demand for consumption insurance, is larger among college graduates. Even if the variance of income shocks could potentially explain partnership choices, simulations suggest a small role of income volatility. |
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Blasutto, Fabio. "Cohabitation vs. Marriage: Mating Strategies by Education in the USA ." Journal of the European Economic Association published online (7 November 2023).
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Carneiro, Pedro Meghir, Costas Parey, Matthias |
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Maternal Education, Home Environments, and the Development of Children and Adolescents Journal of the European Economic Association 11, s1 (January 2013): 123-160. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01096.x/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Achievement; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Body Mass Index (BMI); Cognitive Development; Grade Retention/Repeat Grade; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Education; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Obesity; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children’s cognitive achievement, behavioral problems, grade repetition, and obesity, using matched data from the female participants of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children. We address the endogeneity of maternal schooling by instrumenting it with variation in schooling costs during the mother’s adolescence. Our results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. Our data set allows us to study a large array of channels which may transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at different ages of the child. We discuss policy implications and relate our findings to the literature on intergenerational mobility. © 2013 European Economic Association |
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Carneiro, Pedro, Costas Meghir and Matthias Parey. "Maternal Education, Home Environments, and the Development of Children and Adolescents." Journal of the European Economic Association 11, s1 (January 2013): 123-160.
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Cunha, Flavio Heckman, James J. |
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Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development Journal of the European Economic Association 7,2-3 (April 2009): 320-364 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: MIT Press Keyword(s): Achievement; Cognitive Development; Family Influences; Mothers, Education; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Skill Formation Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of human development. Inequalities in family environments and investments in children are substantial. They causally affect the development of capabilities. Both cognitive and noncognitive capabilities determine success in life but to varying degrees for different outcomes. An empirically determined technology of capability formation reveals that capabilities are self-productive and cross-fertilizing and can be enhanced by investment. Investments in capabilities are relatively more productive at some stages of a child's life cycle than others. Optimal child investment strategies differ depending on target outcomes of interest and on the nature of adversity in a child's early years. For some configurations of early disadvantage and for some desired outcomes, it is efficient to invest relatively more in the later years of childhood than in the early years. |
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Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman. "Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development." Journal of the European Economic Association 7,2-3 (April 2009): 320-364 .
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De la Roca, Jorge Ottaviano, Gianmarco P. Puga, Diego |
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City of Dreams Journal of the European Economic Association published online (30 July 2022): DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac042. Also: https://academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeea/jvac042/6652214 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Mobility; Self-Esteem; Urbanization/Urban Living Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Bigger cities offer more valuable experience and opportunities in exchange for higher housing costs. While higher-ability workers benefit more from bigger cities, they are not more likely to move to one. Our model of urban sorting by workers with heterogeneous self-confidence and ability suggests flawed self-assessment is partly to blame. Analysis of NLSY79 data shows that, consistent with our model, young workers with high self-confidence are more likely to locate in a big city initially. For more experienced workers, ability plays a stronger role in determining location choices, but the lasting impact of earlier choices dampens their incentives to move. |
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De la Roca, Jorge, Gianmarco P. Ottaviano and Diego Puga. "City of Dreams." Journal of the European Economic Association published online (30 July 2022): DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac042.
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