‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
研究发现单身女性在婚姻市场信号压力下会回避展现职业抱负的行为，如降低期望薪资和出差意愿，而实验表明这种效应主要由单身男性同伴的观察驱动。
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA students perform similarly when their performance is unobserved by classmates (on exams and problem sets), unmarried women have lower participation grades. In a field experiment, single female students reported lower desired salaries and willingness to travel and work long hours on a real-stakes placement questionnaire when they expected their classmates to see their preferences. Other groups' responses were unaffected by peer observability. A second experiment indicates the effects are driven by observability by single male peers.