Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas?
- 1 July 2007
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Labor Economics
- Vol. 25 (3), 475-512
- https://doi.org/10.1086/512706
Abstract
Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we test Costa and Kahn’s colocation hypothesis, which predicts that power couples—couples in which both spouses have college degrees—are more likely to migrate to the largest cities than part-power couples or power singles. We find no support for this hypothesis. Instead, regression analyses suggest that only the education of the husband and not the joint education profile of the couple affects the propensity to migrate to large metropolitan areas. The observed location trends are better explained by higher rates of power couple formation in larger metropolitan areas.Keywords
This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
- Sex and the CityThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005
- Estimating Social Effects in Matching Markets: Externalities in Spousal SearchThe Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003
- Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000
- A Question of Compromise? Case Study Evidence on the Location and Mobility Strategies of Dual Career HouseholdsRegional Studies, 1997
- A Simple Estimator for Simultaneous Models with Censored Endogenous RegressorsInternational Economic Review, 1993
- Simple tests for sample selection bias in censored and discrete choice modelsJournal of Applied Econometrics, 1992
- Family Migration and Female Employment: The Problem of Underemployment among Migrant Married WomenJournal of Marriage and Family, 1988
- Determinants of Mobility in Two-Earner Families: Does the Wife's Income Count?Journal of Marriage and Family, 1985
- Women and the Economics of Family MigrationThe Review of Economics and Statistics, 1977
- Dual Occupation Families and MigrationAmerican Sociological Review, 1976