What mom and dad's match means for junior. Marital sorting and child outcomes.

Autor/inn/en	Edwards, Ryan D.; Roff, Jennifer
Titel	What mom and dad's match means for junior. Marital sorting and child outcomes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Was die Übereinstimmung von Mutter und Vater für den Nachwuchs bedeutet. Auswahl des Ehepartners und Erfolg der Kinder.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2016) 40, S. 43-56 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2016.04.005
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ehe; Ehefrau; Ehemann; Mutter; Vater; Kind; Schulleistung; Religion; Qualifikation; Dauer; Alter; Auswirkung; Ehepaar; Ehepartner; USA
Abstract	"This paper employs recently developed marital matching models to examine empirically the role played by marital sorting in observed measures of marital production. Using the US Collaborative Perinatal Project (CPP), a large-scale study from the 1960s, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY), we find that marital surplus is strongly correlated with indices of child quality, as measured by cognitive test scores, and with the durability of the marital union. At ages beyond infancy, the correlation between cognitive outcomes and marital surplus is robust to the inclusion of the parental characteristics that generate the match, suggesting that the correlation represents effects of the match itself. High marital surplus is associated with assortative mating on education and age, suggesting complementarity in parental inputs in child production. Our results suggest that marital surplus is an important input for child quality above and beyond its indirect effects on marital stability." (Author's abstract, © 2016 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2016/4