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Returns to Education in the Marriage Market
Nelly El-Mallakh
Jingyuan Deng
Luca Flabbi
Roberta Gatti
其他書名
Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt
出版
SSRN
, 2023
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LK050AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This paper examines the marriage market returns of female education in Egypt by exploiting a very direct measure of returns: bride price, a significant amount of resources transferred by the groom at the time of marriage. Identification issues are addressed by exploiting a school reform that reduced the number of years required to complete primary education from six to five. The staggered roll-out of the reform generates exogenous sources of variation in female schooling both across and within cells defined by birth years and administrative units. The estimated return to a bride's compulsory education is about 100% for bride price, about 14% for husband's wage at the time of marriage, and about 16% for a measure of husband's permanent income. Further empirical evidence suggests that educational assortative mating could be an important mechanism through which the marriage market returns are taking place.
