Estimation results of instrumental variables.

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.本研究聚焦于中国微观家庭，采用中国家庭追踪调查（China Family Panel Studies，2020）的数据，探究父母初婚年龄对子女教育成果的影响。通过普通最小二乘（Ordinary Least Squares，OLS）模型回归分析，研究发现：父母晚婚更有利于做好生育准备，婚姻稳定性也更强，其子女的受教育年限也更长。但该正向影响会在父母婚龄超过30岁后转为负向影响。进一步分析表明，父母初婚年龄对子女的教育获得存在异质性影响，即母亲对子女教育成果的影响显著高于父亲。