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The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labour and Education Choices

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

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Sorting, Education and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …

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Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …

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Education and Borrowing Constraints: Tests Vs. Prices

Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper examines the properties of exams and markets as alternative allocation devices under borrowing constraints. Exams dominate markets in terms of matching efficiency. Whether aggregate consumption is greater under exams than under markets depends on the power of the exam technology; for...

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