Returns to Women’s Education in the Marriage Market: A Comparative Analysis of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Much research has tried to find the association between women’s schooling and their husband’s wages. This association has been referred to as returns to women’s education in the marriage market, or simply as marriage returns to education. This article compared marriage returns in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan with each other, and contrasted these returns with their wage returns in each country. Analyzing General Social Survey data from each country, which were collected in the late 2000s, it also compared the estimates from several statistical models such as OLS regression, Heckman’s selection regression, instrumental variables regression, and conditional mixed process model. The findings were these: first, marriage returns did not seem to be much different from country to country.
Second, marriage returns in Japan were much higher than wage returns, whereas the two returns were similar to one another in both Korea and Taiwan. This means that Japanese women might be more concerned about their marriage prospects than Korean and Taiwanese women, when deciding the level of education they will pursue.

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