Marriage Market Pathways of the Parental Schooling Effect (2SLS)
| Dependent Variable | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent Is Married (1) | Partner Coresides (2) | Partner’s Years of Schooling (3) | Partner Has a Secondary or Higher Schooling Attainment (4) | Age Gap with Partner (5) | Mother’s Age at First Birth (6) | Number of Children Born To the Mother (7) | |
| Panel A: Mothers Sample | |||||||
| Mother’s schooling | −0.010 [0.008] | −0.015 [0.013] | 0.563*** [0.059] | 0.072*** [0.009] | 0.053 [0.184] | 0.562*** [0.070] | −0.191*** [0.036] |
| F-test | 14.04 | 14.04 | 17.58 | 17.58 | 15.22 | 14.04 | 14.04 |
| p-value | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Observations | 91480 | 91480 | 55661 | 55661 | 57728 | 91480 | 91480 |
| Panel B: Fathers Sample | |||||||
| Father’s schooling | 0.013** [0.006] | 0.013 [0.009] | 0.487*** [0.115] | 0.079*** [0.009] | −0.191 [0.160] | ||
| F-test | 25.13 | 25.13 | 22.16 | 22.16 | 24.15 | ||
| p-value | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||
| Observations | 50026 | 50026 | 44767 | 44767 | 46440 | ||
↵Notes: Each cell represents a separate regression; robust standard errors clustered by age in 1980 appear in brackets. All regressions include linear splines in parent age in 1980 (coefficients not shown), fixed effects for child ages 7–15 (omitted age is six), and a binary indicator for girls. The instrument for parent schooling is the discontinuity at age 15 in 1980. The reported F-statistics refer to this excluded instrument. Statistical significance: *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01.