Sex and the Uni: Higher Education Effects in Job and Marital Satisfaction*

Alessandro Tampieri

No 10/07, Discussion Papers in Economics from Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester

Abstract: This paper examines how higher education affects job and marital satisfaction. We build up a model with assortative matching where individuals decide whether to attend university both for obtaining job satisfaction and for increasing the probability to be matched with an educated partner. The theoretical results suggest that, as assortative matching increases, the number of educated individuals increases, their job satisfaction falls while their marital satisfaction increases. We test our model using the British Household Panel Survey data for the years 2003-2006. Our empirical findings support the theoretical results.

Keywords: job satisfaction; marital satisfaction; assortative matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 I21 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05, Revised 2010-09
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Working Paper: The effects of Assortative Matching on Job and Marital Satisfaction through University Attendance (2016)
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