Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy
构建了一个人力资本投资与活动选择模型，解释男女性在人力资本投资回报、教育水平及职业选择上的差异，并用孟加拉国农村数据验证了体力分布的重要性。
A model of human capital investment and activity choice is used to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments and occupational choice. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model incorporates gender differences in the level and responsiveness of brawn to nutrition in a Roy-economy setting in which activities reward skill and brawn differentially. Evidence from rural Bangladesh provides support for the model and the importance of the distribution of brawn.