Gender differences in education in a dynamic household bargaining model

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Echevarria, C; Merlo, A
• 署名单位: University of Saskatchewan; New York University
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-2354.00015
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 265-286
• 关键词: marriage; RESOURCES; BEHAVIOR; outcomes; MARKET; INDIA; wages

摘要

We explore the issue of gender differences in education in the context of a two-sex overlapping generations model where men and women of each generation bargain over consumption, number of children, and investment in education of their children. We show that the gender difference implied by our model is smaller than the one that would result from a pure investment model. We use our model to estimate the cost to a woman of having a child, The estimate we obtain is about 5% of the working lifetime of a woman.