Skill Premia and Pre-Marital Investments in Marriage Markets
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| author | Kuvalekar, Aditya |
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| contents | I study a decentralized marriage market with search frictions, costly pre-marital skill investments, and non-transferable utility. Despite a symmetric environment, the market can exhibit asymmetric equilibria, with one gender investing more in skills than the other; in some environments, the asymmetric equilibrium is unique. A microfounded model of household utility maximization shows that this transition from a unique symmetric equilibrium to a unique asymmetric equilibrium can be driven by rising labor-market wages for high-skilled workers: as the skill premium rises, one gender ends up fully investing while the other invests substantially less. |
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| spellingShingle | Skill Premia and Pre-Marital Investments in Marriage Markets Kuvalekar, Aditya General Economics Economics I study a decentralized marriage market with search frictions, costly pre-marital skill investments, and non-transferable utility. Despite a symmetric environment, the market can exhibit asymmetric equilibria, with one gender investing more in skills than the other; in some environments, the asymmetric equilibrium is unique. A microfounded model of household utility maximization shows that this transition from a unique symmetric equilibrium to a unique asymmetric equilibrium can be driven by rising labor-market wages for high-skilled workers: as the skill premium rises, one gender ends up fully investing while the other invests substantially less. |
| title | Skill Premia and Pre-Marital Investments in Marriage Markets |
| topic | General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10060 |