recent studies for the Chinese urban labour market. We use parents’ education and spouse's education to instrument for … education as well as exploit heteroskedasticity to aid in identification. The two-stage least squares estimates using parents …’ and spouse's education are considerably higher than the OLS estimates for returns to schooling, while the estimates which …

education and spousal education combine to influence self-rated health within marriage. The results highlight the importance of …Education’s benefits for individuals’ health are well documented, but it is unclear whether health benefits also accrue … from the education of others in important social relationships. We assess the extent to which individuals’ own education …

Previous research has suggested that a new marriage gradient has emerged in the United States, with marriage becoming … in the marriage gradient among 25 European countries, using multilevel models. The focus is on the chances of living in a … married. For men, the educational effect on marriage is absent in traditional countries but becomes positive as gender roles …

United States. Both a general and an education-based metric have strong effects. The novel statistical power arises from …

her with respect to medical treatment, including the Pill. By the mid-1970s, the minimum marriage age had been lowered to … made early marriage more attractive and facilitated women’s educational and occupational attainments. Marriage combined … with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …

We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural … empirical model that allows for the endogenous selection of education and sector of employment, we estimate the relationship … worker from 1978 to 2004 is accounted for by increased education, with 9% coming through the labor-reallocation channel and 2 …