Competing Premarital Investments

By Michael Peters, A. Siow. Journal of Political Economy, 2002

222 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0451f807eaed95971c37fe7f7b15883eedf6fd28

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

In Gender Studies

Citations in the corpus

Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market (2009, background): “However, when educated women become relatively abundant their share in the marital surplus declines.”
In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940 (2015, unknown): “In the framework of matching tournament models of marriage with pre-marital investment (Peters and Siow, 2002; Bhaskar and Hopkins, 2011), the rate of return to female human capital is determined endogenously as a function of male returns to human capital and marriage market conditions.”
Women’s rights and development (2013, unknown): “…in a given state/territory by a given decade, i.e., y it = x 0 it + dt + "it where i = 1; :::; n; t = 1850; 1860; :::; 1920 yit = 1 if y it > 0 0 if y it 0 where yit is the observed state law variable BOTH in state i at time t and y it is the unobserved legal rights "response" in that state and…”
The Marriage Market, Labor Supply, and Education Choice (2015, unknown): “ln w̃it = δ gs 0 + δ gs 1 t+ δ gs 2 t 2 + δ 3 t 3 + λE(z ′ 1βE) + λed(z ′ 2βHS, z ′ 2βU) + vit (33)”
Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines. NBER Working Paper No. 13947. (2008, unknown): “The third difference is between genders; maternal mortality is quite unique among major causes of death in that it exclusively pertains to women.”
The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China (2009, background): “For a theoretical model that may deliver this result, see Peters and Siow (2002).”