Yuan Bohui, Pu Yanping
School of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, China.
PLoS One. 2025 May 7;20(5):e0322151. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0322151. eCollection 2025.
This paper focuses on micro-level Chinese households and studies the impact of parental marriage age on the education outcomes of their children, utilizing data from the China Family Panel Studies (2020). Through OLS model regression, it is found that parents who get married later are better prepared to have children, marital stability is also stronger, and their children have a longer education period. But this positive effect will turn negative after the age of marriage exceeds 30. Further analysis reveals that parental age at marriage has a heterogeneous effect on their children's educational attainment, which means mothers have a more significant impact on their children's education outcomes than fathers.
本文聚焦于微观层面的中国家庭，利用中国家庭追踪调查（2020）的数据，研究父母结婚年龄对其子女教育成果的影响。通过OLS模型回归发现，结婚较晚的父母在生育方面准备更充分，婚姻稳定性也更强，其子女受教育年限更长。但结婚年龄超过30岁后，这种积极影响会转为消极。进一步分析表明，父母结婚年龄对子女受教育程度具有异质性影响，即母亲对子女教育成果的影响比父亲更大。
