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

Saqib Jafarey and Dibyendu Maiti ()

Journal of Development Economics, 2015, vol. 115, issue C, 45-61

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Female education; Labour market discrimination; Marriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.12.005

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