Replication data for: 'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Leonardo Bursztyn; Thomas Fujiwara; Amanda Pallais
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Project Citation:
Bursztyn, Leonardo, Fujiwara, Thomas, and Pallais, Amanda. Replication data for: “Acting Wife”: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113174V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA
students perform similarly when their performance is unobserved by classmates (on exams and problem sets), unmarried women have lower participation grades. In a field
experiment, single female students reported lower desired salaries and willingness to travel and work long hours on a real-stakes placement questionnaire when they expected
their classmates to see their preferences. Other groups' responses were unaffected by peer observability. A second experiment indicates the effects are driven by observability by
single male peers.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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C93 Field Experiments
D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
C93 Field Experiments
D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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