Meeting at School. Assortative Matching in Partnerships and Over-Education

Tampieri, Alessandro (2011) Meeting at School. Assortative Matching in Partnerships and Over-Education. Bologna: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE, p. 31. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4515. In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE (726). ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract

This paper argues that assortative matching may explain over-education. Education determines individuals' income and, due to the presence of assortative matching, the quality of the partner, who can be a colleague or a spouse. Thus an individual acquires some education to improve the expected partner's quality. But since everybody does that, the partner's quality does not increase and over-education emerges. Tax progression to correct over-education has ambiguous effects on the educational incentives according to the individuals' ability. We test the model using the British Household Panel Survey. The empirical results support our theoretical findings.

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Tampieri, Alessandro
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Assortative Matching, Over-Education
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2282-6483
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