Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2010
This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow’s Pension System that raised the attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to...