Arbeitspapier
Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions
The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a particular college admission system on family formation. We show that the admission system affects mainly the timing of college enrollment and not the college-going decision. As such, we consider a specific type of career interruption and its consequences for relationship formation and fertility decisions. Specifically, we employ a regression discontinuity design based on the college admission system to estimate the effect of being above the admission requirement in the year of application on later family formation decisions. We find that the admission system has substantial effects on the timing of family formation and, specifically, that the timing of college enrollment is an important determinant hereof. This suggests that career interruptions such as delays in the educational system can have large effects on family decision-making.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7905
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Subject
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fertility
education policy
career interruptions
delayed college enrollment
regression discontinuity
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Humlum, Maria Knoth
Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.
Vejlin, Rune Majlund
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Humlum, Maria Knoth
- Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.
- Vejlin, Rune Majlund
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2014
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