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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w24332
来源ID	Working Paper 24332
	The Impact of Education on Family Formation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the UK
	Michael Geruso; Heather Royer
发表日期	2018-02-19
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	We examine the impact of educational attainment on fertility and mating market outcomes. Using a regression discontinuity design, we exploit an extension of the compulsory schooling age from 15 to 16 in 1972 in the UK. The change was binding for a quarter of the population. Simple plots of the raw data show substantially lower teen fertility rates across the threshold of the reform, but no impacts on abortions and no impact on completed fertility by age 45. In the mating market, the reform induced both men and women to marry more educated mates, consistent with positive assortative mating. We show that timing of the teen fertility reduction coincided with the timing of the extra induced schooling and that the probability of marrying a peer in the same academic cohort rose. These results suggest that school attendance may have important direct effects, in addition to and separate from the human capital effects of education.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w24332
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582005
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michael Geruso,Heather Royer. The Impact of Education on Family Formation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the UK. 2018.

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