Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - In: International Advances in Economic Research 18 (2012) 4, pp. 409-416
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be attributed to the assortative mating effect as...