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The impact of the female advantage in education on the family

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Men’s historical advantage in educational attainment has recently been reversed in many countries. I study the implications for family formation of the new female advantage in education in the marriage market, exploiting a Finnish school reform that increased women’s relative level of education. I analyze the reduced-form relationship between marriage market exposure to the reform and family outcomes. I find decreases in marriage and fertility in marriage markets with a larger female educational advantage. These results are mostly driven by the increasing mismatch between the educational distributions of men and women, and might have negative consequences for low-educated men’s mental health.

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Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa

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cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Rodríguez González et al., 2024

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Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA))

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The impact of the female advantage in education on the family