Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990

By Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “Costa and Kahn (2000) report that college-educated couples became increasingly located in large metropolitan areas over the 1970–90 period.”
Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 (2005, background): “Finally, decreasing intermarriage across education groups may have resulted from the increased concentration of highly educated persons in urban areas and the growing spatial segregation of income groups more generally (e.g., Costa and Kahn 2000; Fischer et al. 2004; Jargowsky 1996).”
Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions (2009, background): “The relevance of a multiple-location joint-search model of the labor market is supported, for example, by Costa and Kahn (2000) who document that highly educated dual-career couples have increasingly relocated to large metropolitan areas in the United States since the 1960s (more so than comparable ”
Quality of Life and the Migration of the College‐Educated: A Life‐Course Approach (2008, background): “Trends such as the retirement of the baby boomers and the emergence of new demographic groups like the “power couples” (Costa and Kahn 2000) will lead to shifts in the relative importance of different demographic groups.”
Do Public Transport Improvements Increase Agglomeration Economies? A Review of Literature and an Agenda for Research (2011, background): “Costa and Kahn (2000) found that the percentage of dual-bachelor degree couples living in large US cities increased from 32% to 50% between 1940 and 1990.”
Local amenities and life-cycle migration: Do people move for jobs or fun? (2008, methodology): “This tendency is especially pronounced for couples with two college degree for whom productive locations provide opportunities to resolve job market co-location problems (e.g. Costa and Kahn, 2000).”
The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980-2000 (2016, background): “…low skill workers were both initially and increasingly 1 1 While I abstract away from the role joint location decisions of dual earner households, work by Costa and Kahn (2000) shows that couples where both partners have high powered careers are particularly attracted to large, high skill cities.”
Urban growth drivers in a Europe of sticky people and implicit boundaries (2008, background): “The log of population size is included with the expectation that larger cities would have grown faster because of productivity gains in larger urban areas (see Costa and Kahn, 2000 for a convincing account of at least one potential source for such gains).”
Ability Sorting and Consumer City (2010, unknown): “These high-skill dual career couples may have di¢ culty nding jobs for both of them in small cities, because their jobs tend to be specialized and small cities do not have many high-skill jobs (See Costa and Kahn (2000)).”