Education and Marriage Decisions of Japanese Women and the Role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act
DP番号
DP-2015-003
言語
英語のみ
発行年月
September, 2015
著者
Linda N. Edwards, Takuya Hasebe, Tadashi Sakai
JELコード
J12
キーワード
Equal Employment Opportunity Act, marriage, university education
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要旨
Prompted by concordant upward trends in both the university advancement rate and
the unmarried rate for Japanese women, this paper investigates whether the Equal
Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA), which was passed in 1985, affected women’s
marriage decisions either directly or via their decisions to pursue university education.
To this end, we estimate a model that treats education and marriage decisions as jointly
determined using longitudinal data for Japanese women. We find little evidence that
the passage of EEOA increased the proportion of women who advance to university, but
strong support for the proposition that it increased the deterrent effect of university
education on marriage.