What a difference a term makes: the effect of educational attainment on marital outcomes in the UK

Dan Anderberg; Yu Zhu

doi:10.1007/s00148-013-0493-5

What a difference a term makes: the effect of educational attainment on marital outcomes in the UK

Dan Anderberg (Lead / Corresponding author), Yu Zhu

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Abstract

In the past, students in England and Wales born within the first 5 months of the academic year could leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, those who were required to stay on an extra term more frequently hold some academic qualification. Using having been required to stay on as an exogenous factor affecting academic attainment, we find that holding a low-level academic qualification has no effect on the probability of being currently married for women aged 25 or above, but increases the probability of the husband holding some academic qualification and being economically active

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	387-419
Number of pages	33
Journal	Journal of Population Economics
Volume	27
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-013-0493-5
Publication status	Published - Apr 2014

Keywords

Education
Marriage
Assortative mating

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Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)

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