TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Virtanen, Hanna
AU  - Silliman, Mikko
AU  - Kuuppelomäki, Tiina
AU  - Huttunen, Kristiina
        TI  - Education, Gender, and Family Formation
        PY  - 2024/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17122
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17122
        AB  - We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by centralized admissions processes to both secondary and tertiary education in Finland. Admission to further education at either margin does not increase the likelihood that men form families. In contrast, women admitted to further education are more likely to both live with a partner and have children. We then pre-register and test two hypotheses which could explain each set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men's education and family formation observed in the data is driven by selection. For women, our estimates are consistent with the idea that, as increased returns to social skills shift the burden of child development from schools to parents and particularly mothers, education can make women more attractive as potential partners.
        KW  - family
KW  - education
KW  - gender
        ER  -