Glass slippers and glass ceilings: An analysis of marital anticipation and female education

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jafarey, Saqib; Maiti, Dibyendu
• 署名单位: City St Georges, University of London; University of the South Pacific
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.12.005
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 45-61
• 关键词: Female education; Labour market discrimination; marriage

摘要

This paper studies how marital anticipation affects female schooling in the presence of gender wage inequality and private benefits of education. Gender wage inequality induces a marital division of labour that creates (i) a marginal disincentive to girls' schooling and (ii) a tradeoff between consumption and education facing females in marriage markets. We show that in the presence of the last effect, an increase in the market wage can have negative consequences for the education of females who specialise in housework. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.