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Searching on campus? The marriage market effects of changing student sex ratios
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Abstract This paper studies how secular changes in the student sex ratio affect marriage market outcomes for university graduates. Using data from Germany, I find that a higher own-gender share within the field of study reduces marriage market opportunities for women, while the opposite is true for men. More... mehr
This paper studies how secular changes in the student sex ratio affect marriage market outcomes for university graduates. Using data from Germany, I find that a higher own-gender share within the field of study reduces marriage market opportunities for women, while the opposite is true for men. Moreover, an imbalanced student sex ratio changes the composition of couples. For women, a higher female share decreases the probability of having a spouse from the same field, while men are more likely to marry down with respect to educational status when the male share is high. These findings suggest that the secular changes in the sex ratio of university students have important implications beyond the labor market by affecting the household composition among the high-skilled population.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Partnerbeziehung; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren; Hochschule; Universität; Heirat; Partnerwahl; Absolvent; Geschlechterverteilung
Klassifikation
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich
Freie Schlagwörter
Marriage markets; Higher education; German microcensus 2003-2011
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 1175-1207
Zeitschriftentitel
Review of Economics of the Household, 19 (2021) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09565-8
ISSN
1573-7152
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)