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Pierre André Chiappori (Columbia) "Family Economics" - Cemmap

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9. Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market 409<br />

Define the (relative) wage gap among educated individuals as d2 =<br />

ww 2 /wm 2 and let the gender wage gap between uneducated individuals be<br />

d1 = ww 1 /wm 1 . Starting from the benchmark equilibrium with strictly positive<br />

assortative mating and equal shares (point e in Figure 9.4), we examine<br />

the impact of a difference in the market returns from schooling of women<br />

and men. Specifically, we consider an increase in the wage of educated men,<br />

wm 2 , combined with a reduction in the wage of educated women, ww 2 , holding<br />

the wage of uneducated men at the benchmark value, w1. Toisolatethe<br />

role of market returns, we assume that the increase in the wage of educated<br />

men exactly compensates the reduction in the wage of educated women so<br />

that marital output is unaffected and symmetry is maintained. 15 In other<br />

words, the change in wages affect directly only the returns as singles, Rm and Rw . For now, we assume that discrimination is uniform across schooling<br />

levels so that d1 = d2 ≡ d

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