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Title: Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter?
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Ge, Suqin |
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Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter? Working Paper, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, March 2008. Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Labor Supply; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the sequential college attendance decisions of young women and quantifies the impact of marriage expectations on their decisions 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 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). The model is used to simulate the effects of no marriage benefits and finds that the predicted college attendance rate would drop from 61% to 56%. Using the estimated model, the college attendance behavior for a younger cohort (data taken from the NLSY97) is predicted and used to validate the behavioral model. |
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Ge, Suqin. "Women's College Decisions: How Much Does Marriage Matter?" Working Paper, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, March 2008. |