The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Marriage Migration*
利用丹麦一项取消24岁以下移民婚姻移民资格的政策改革，发现与婚姻移民结婚使男性移民的辍学率提高25个百分点，对女性影响较小且不显著。
Abstract We investigate the effect of immigrants’ marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform that generated exogenous variation in marriage behavior by a complete abolishment of marriage migration for immigrants below 24 years. The reform influenced immigrants from countries with a high historical rate of marriage migration more than immigrants from country groups with a low rate. We find that the dropout rate for males increases by 25 percentage points as a consequence of marriage to a marriage migrant, whereas the effect for females is small and mostly insignificant.