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

Re:'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Marke... by tabeth on Sunday February 19, 2017 @12:54PM (#13680876)

I don't have access to the full paper, but I'm surprised to see that there's no definition of "ambitious." Is it ambitious to want to start a company or to want to raise children successfully? Perhaps women have a different definition of "ambitious", therefore men are trying to hold up women to their standard.

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Re:'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Marke... by huac on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:26PM (#13681076)

It is self-reported and relative to others.

> "The questionnaire asks how often students are willing to travel for work, the number of hours per week they are willing to work, and their desired compensation. They were also asked to rate their ambition relative to their most recent work colleagues and their tendency to lead in day-to-day interactions on a 1-to-5 scale."

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Re:'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Marke... by BurningFrog on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:25PM (#13681415)

So it's about ambitions in the workplace.

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Re:'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Marke... by BurningFrog on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:04PM (#13680951)

I'd rephrase that to Perhaps women have different ambitions than men. On average, with large individual variation, of course.

To me "ambitious" is about both how big your ambitions are and how hard you pursue them.

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Re:'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Marke... by srssays on Sunday February 19, 2017 @08:04PM (#13683389)

Ambitious in this context seems to mean materialistic.

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