Why are power couples increasingly concentrated in large metropolitan areas?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A.
• 署名单位: University of Manitoba; Washington University (WUSTL)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/512706
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 475-512
• 关键词: sample selection bias; family migration; married-women; EMPLOYMENT; models; determinants; mobility; cities; CHOICE; long

摘要

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we test Costa and Kahn's colocation hypothesis, which predicts that power couples-couples in which both spouses have college degrees-are more likely to migrate to the largest cities than part-power couples or power singles. We find no support for this hypothesis. Instead, regression analyses suggest that only the education of the husband and not the joint education profile of the couple affects the propensity to migrate to large metropolitan areas. The observed location trends are better explained by higher rates of power couple formation in larger metropolitan areas.