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The Effects of Marriage, Marital Dissolution, and Educational Upgrading on Educational Assortative Mating

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: We examine changes in educational homogamy across one cohort’s life and identify the demographic sources of these changes. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we decompose changes in the odds of homogamy in prevailing marriages into three components: changes due to (1) new marriages, (2) marital dissolutions, and (3) educational upgrades after marriage. The odds of homogamy increase substantially as the cohort ages. These patterns are primarily driven by changes in the odds of homogamy among newlyweds entering their first marriages. Marital dissolutions, educational upgrades after marriage, and remarriages have smaller effects.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Authors: Christine R. Schwartz, Robert D. Mare

Institution: University of California, Los Angeles

Language: English

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funders: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles

OpenAlex ID: W208365031

FWCI: 3.885

Cites: 26

Cited by: 9

Related to: 10