TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gihleb, Rania
AU  - Lifshitz, Osnat
        TI  - Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
        PY  - 2016/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9958
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9958
        AB  - In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and only slightly affected by assortative matching.
        KW  - female labor supply
KW  - educational assortative mating
KW  - human capital
KW  - inequality
        ER  -