title: Home investment in husband's human capital and the wife's decision to work.
abstract: "This paper explores the importance of husbands' career demands and assortative mating patterns for market-specific human capital on the decision of married women to work or not....[It] has three goals: (1) to derive, within the framework of a standard model of home production, a testable hypothesis concerning the effect of home investment in husband's human capital on a wife's decision to work; (2) to reconcile the theory with the existing empirical evidence by noting that issues of joint husband and wife decision-making cannot be viewed without considering the role of the marriage sorting market; and (3) to provide new empirical evidence that isolates the home investment effect from the sorting effect." Data are from 281 married couples in the United States.
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Carlin
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001519:Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Behavior; Decision Making; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Educational Status--women; Employment Status--women; Home Economics; Human Capital; Human Resources; Microeconomic Factors; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Occupational Status--men; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; United States