Education choices and returns on the labor and marriage markets: Evidence from data on subjective expectations
| Autor: | Katja Maria Kaufmann, Orazio Attanasio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Earnings media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Relative weight Investment (macroeconomics) Business economics Spouse 0502 economics and business Marriage market Economics College enrollment 050207 economics health care economics and organizations 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 140:35-55 |
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.05.002 |
| Popis: | In this paper we analyze the role of expected labor and marriage market returns as determinants of the college enrollment decisions of Mexican high school graduates. Moreover, we investigate whether the (relative) weights of these factors differ by gender. We use data on individuals’ expectations regarding future labor market outcomes which we directly elicited from the youths, and two different measures of marriage market returns. First, marriage market returns are proxied by the (net-)supply of potential partners in the youths’ local marriage markets. Second, we use data which elicits youths’ beliefs about their future spouse's earnings conditional on their own education level. We find that labor market as well as marriage market returns are important determinants of the college enrollment decision. However, boys’ and girls’ preferences differ in terms of the relative role of the two determinants, in that the relative weight of labor market versus marriage market returns is larger for boys than for girls. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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