理悅CEMA•知與行系列研讨會2024年第十一講将于12月13日（周五）下午15：00-17：00在學術會堂712會議室舉行，由山東大學經濟學院助理教授沈丹青報告“Better Education, Fewer Divorces: The Impact of College Education Quality on Marriage Outcomes”，歡迎感興趣的師生參加。

題目

Better Education, Fewer Divorces: The Impact of College Education Quality on Marriage Outcomes

摘要

We investigate the impact of post-secondary college educational quality on family formation of college graduates. Using NLSY79 data, an instrumental variable strategy is employed to identify the causal effect. Higher college quality causes the delay of marriage by about 4 years, without influencing the overall life-time probability of marriage. With later marriage, better college educated people postpone the first birth by about 3.5 years, with the timing of first birth in marriage unaffected. Since better college educated people marry later than other college graduates, they date more people and accumulate more wealth before they enter a marriage. Therefore, better educated college graduates have more stable marriages. We find that an increase in college quality causes a 22 percentage points decrease in the life-time divorce rate and the probability of divorce before age 40. Since the number of college graduates has been growing in the past decades, this article provides a new perspective to understand the trend of marriage and divorce.

報告人簡介

沈丹青，山東大學經濟學院助理教授，博士畢業于普渡大學。研究領域是勞動經濟學，家庭經濟學，教育經濟學和公共政策。發表論文在Economic Inquiry.

時間

2024年12月13日（周五）下午15:00-17:00

地點

韦德体育bevictor學院南路校區學術會堂712會議室

主辦

韦德体育bevictor 中國經濟與管理研究院

撰稿：尹鵬輝、甄芳

審稿：汪雄劍、裘駿峰

編輯：沈嘉怡

審核：王穎