The relationship between women's education and marriage outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lefgren, Lars; McIntyre, Frank
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/506486
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 787-830
• 关键词: mothers education; selection; earnings; models; MARKET; FAMILY

摘要

Using 2000 Census data, we describe the relationship between women's education and marriage outcomes. Women's education is strongly related to husband's income and marital status. This relationship is highly nonlinear and varies across the distribution of husband's earnings. Roughly half of the correlation between women's education and consumption operates through the marriage market. Using 1980 Census data and the quarter of birth instruments proposed by Angrist and Krueger, we find that women's education may have a positive causal effect on husband's earnings, though not on probability of marriage.