Field of Study and Family Outcomes

Elisabeth Artmann (), Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw
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Elisabeth Artmann: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

No 11658, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of study for a range of family outcomes. To get to causal effects, we use admission lotteries that were conducted in the Netherlands to allocate seats for four substantially oversubscribed studies. We find that field of study matters for partner choice, which for women also implies an effect on partners' earnings. Fertility of women is not affected and evidence for men is mixed, but we find evidence for intergenerational effects on children's education. This means that field of study does not only affect individual labor market outcomes but also causally influences other important dimensions of a person's life.

Keywords: assortative matching; returns to education; study choice; higher education; intergenerational mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2018-07
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Published - published as 'Field of study and partner choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 84, 102149

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