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Published in final edited form as: Eur Econ Rev. 2020 Sep 26;130:103581. doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103581

Table 6.

Matching by education, OLS regression of wife’s years of education on husband’s years of education

VARIABLES (1)
wife’s years education		 (2)
differences years education wife < husband		 (3)
differences years education wife > husband
Husband: years education 0.179***
(0.021)
Sex ratio (men/women), 1946 −1.426***
(0.263)		 −0.009
(0.292)		 −0.519
(0.410)
Husband: years education X sex ratio, 1946 0.112***
(0.026)
Constant 7.021***
(0.243)		 2.186***
(0.297)		 −4.484***
(0.340)
Observations 54,977 13,336 3,762
R-squared 0.263 0.091 0.549

Standard errors are clustered on the state of residence level

***

p<0.01

**

p<0.05

*

p<0.1.

OLS regressions on wife’s years of education, differences in education between husband and wife, probability of wife marrying down, probability of wife marrying up. Controls: 5-year birth cohort fixed effects, state of residence fixed effects, husband’s year of birth fixed effects, household income. The sample consists of women in their first marriage. First marriage means that women that are separated/divorced or widowed are excluded. The analysis is based on the 1% sample of the German Census 1970.