An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity: On the College Gender Gap

Hanzhe Zhang ()

Journal of Political Economy, 2021, vol. 129, issue 5, 1464 - 1486

Abstract: I build an investment-and-marriage model to provide a new explanation for the reversed college gender gap; that is, more women than men are going to college. The explanation is based on differential fecundity and an equilibrium marriage-market effect. The model also sheds light on gender-specific relationships between age at marriage and midlife personal income for American men and women and the evolving relationship between age at marriage and spousal income for American women.

Date: 2021
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