Assortative Matching and the Education Gap

Número: 
427
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
C78, D13, D61
Palabras clave: 
Assortative matching, efficiency, gender, education.

This paper attempts to explain the decrease and reversal of the education gap between males and females. Given a continuum of agents, the education decisions are modelled as an assignment game with endogenous types. In the first stage agents choose their