TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender differences in education in a dynamic household bargaining model
AU - Echevarria, Cristina
AU - Merlo, Antonio
PY - 1999/5
Y1 - 1999/5
N2 - We explore the issue of gender differences in education in the context of a two-sex overlapping generations model where men and women of each generation bargain over consumption, number of children, and investment in education of their children. We show that the gender difference implied by our model is smaller than the one that would result from a pure investment model. We use our model to estimate the cost to a woman of having a child. The estimate we obtain is about 5% of the working lifetime of a woman.
AB - We explore the issue of gender differences in education in the context of a two-sex overlapping generations model where men and women of each generation bargain over consumption, number of children, and investment in education of their children. We show that the gender difference implied by our model is smaller than the one that would result from a pure investment model. We use our model to estimate the cost to a woman of having a child. The estimate we obtain is about 5% of the working lifetime of a woman.
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U2 - 10.1111/1468-2354.00015
DO - 10.1111/1468-2354.00015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011912354
SN - 0020-6598
VL - 40
SP - 265
EP - 286
JO - International Economic Review
JF - International Economic Review
IS - 2
ER -