Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021
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 identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …
