'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition, that are undesirable in the marriage market? We answer this question through two field experiments in an elite U.S. MBA program. Newly-admitted MBA students filled out a questionnaire

单身女性是否会规避有助于职业发展的行为？究其根源，这类行为可能传递出抱负等在婚姻市场中不受欢迎的人格特质？我们通过两项在美国顶尖MBA项目中开展的田野实验（field experiments）对该问题进行解答。新近录取的MBA学生填写了一份调查问卷。