The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach.

Autor/inn/en	Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent
Titel	The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der Einfluss der Bildung auf die Bildung des Ehepartners: Ein genetischer Ansatz.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2021) 71, S. 1-12 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102023
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Intelligenz (Psy); Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ehefrau; Ehemann; Ehefrau; Ehemann; Genetik; USA; Auswirkung; Präferenz; Qualifikation; Determinante; Bildungsniveau; Kognitive Kompetenz; Bildungsabschluss; Auswahlverfahren; Bildungsabschluss; Genetik; Determinante; Qualifikation; Ausbildungszeit; Auswahlverfahren; Auswirkung; Präferenz; Ehepartner; USA
Abstract	"We investigate the causal effect of education on spousal education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate reduced-form linear matching functions derived from a parsimonious matching model which links spouses' education. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's (resp. wife's) education is associated with an average increase in wife's (resp. husband's) education of 0.41 years '95% CI: 0.37, 0.45 (resp. 0.63 years '95% CI: 0.57, 0.68). To deal with endogeneity issues due to measurement error and omitted variables, we use a measure of genetic propensity (polygenic score) for educational attainment as an instrumental variable. Assuming that our instrument is valid, our 2SLS estimate suggests that an additional year in husband's (resp. wife's) education increases wife's (resp. husband's) education by about 0.49 years '95% CI: 0.35, 0.62 (resp. 0.76 '95% CI: 0.56, 0.96). Since greater genetic propensity for educational attainment has been linked to a range of personality and cognitive skills, we allow for the possibility that the exclusion restriction is violated using the plausible exogenous approach by Conley et al. (2012). A positive causal effect of education on spousal education cannot be ruled out, as long as one standard deviation increase in husband's (wife's) genetic propensity for education directly increases wife's (husband's) education by less than 0.2 (0.3) years." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/2