bjorklund, anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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...