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'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

The American economic review, 2017-11, Vol.107 (11), p.3288-3319 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Author: Bursztyn, Leonardo ; Fujiwara, Thomas ; Pallais, Amanda
Subjects: Academic grades ; Ambition ; Career advancement ; Classmates ; Economic theory ; Incentives ; Internships ; Labor market ; Labor markets ; Marriage ; Men ; Questionnaires ; Single persons ; Single status ; Single women ; Testing ; Wages & salaries ; Women ; Working women
Is Part Of: The American economic review, 2017-11, Vol.107 (11), p.3288-3319
Description: Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA students perform similarly when their performance is unobserved by classmates (on exams and problem sets), unmarried women have lower participation grades. In a field experiment, single female students reported lower desired salaries and willingness to travel and work long hours on a real-stakes placement questionnaire when they expected their classmates to see their preferences. Other groups' responses were unaffected by peer observability. A second experiment indicates the effects are driven by observability by single male peers.
Publisher: Nashville: American Economic Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0002-8282
EISSN: 1944-7981
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20170029
Source: ProQuest Central

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