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

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The Ties That Double Bind: Social Roles and Women's Underrepresentation in Politics (2018, unknown): “In addition, women may feel the need to curtail displays of their career ambition (Bursztyn, Fujiwara, and Pallais 2017), and avoid careers that require it (Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan 2015) in order to remain married.”
Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets (2020, background): “[17] Bursztyn, Leonardo, Thomas Fujiwara and Amanda Pallais.”
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “More recent work by Bursztyn et al. (2017) show that traditional gender norms remain relevant among highly-educated and career-oriented women.”