{"title":"Pricing the Biological Clock: The Marriage Market Costs of Aging to Women","authors":"Corinne Low","doi":"10.1086/723834","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Women who make time-costly career investments may face a penalty on the marriage market due to lower fecundity. Using an innovative experiment where online daters are recruited to rate profiles with randomly assigned age, incentivized with customized advice based on their ratings, I find a causal negative impact of age on women’s marriage market value. For every year a woman ages, she must earn $7,000 more annually to remain equally attractive to potential partners. This penalty is driven entirely by men who have no children and are aware of the age–fertility tradeoff, demonstrating the connection to fecundity.","PeriodicalId":48308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Labor Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Labor Economics","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723834","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Women who make time-costly career investments may face a penalty on the marriage market due to lower fecundity. Using an innovative experiment where online daters are recruited to rate profiles with randomly assigned age, incentivized with customized advice based on their ratings, I find a causal negative impact of age on women’s marriage market value. For every year a woman ages, she must earn $7,000 more annually to remain equally attractive to potential partners. This penalty is driven entirely by men who have no children and are aware of the age–fertility tradeoff, demonstrating the connection to fecundity.
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Since 1983, the Journal of Labor Economics has presented international research that examines issues affecting the economy as well as social and private behavior. The Journal publishes both theoretical and applied research results relating to the U.S. and international data. And its contributors investigate various aspects of labor economics, including supply and demand of labor services, personnel economics, distribution of income, unions and collective bargaining, applied and policy issues in labor economics, and labor markets and demographics.
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