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| Bercea, Brighita; Oreffice, Sonia. |
| This paper further explores the role of sex ratios on spouses bargaining power, by focusing on educational attainment in order to capture the qualitative aspect of mate availability. Using Census and Current Population Survey data for U.S. metropolitan areas in year 2000, a quality sex ratio is constructed by education brackets to test the effect on the intra-household bargaining power of couples in the corresponding education bracket. We argue that a relative shortage of suitably educated women in the spouses potential marriage market increases wives bargaining power in the household while it lowers their husbands. Additionally, we test the prediction that this bargaining power effect is greater as the assortative mating order by education increases.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12185 |
