Pathways to educational homogamy in marital and cohabiting unions [PDF]
Demography, 2010 Abstract There is considerable disagreement about whether cohabitors are more or less likely to be educationally homogamous than married couples. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I reconcile many of the disparate findings of previous research by conducting a “stock and flow” analysis of assortative cohabitation ...
Christine R Schwartz
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Does individual educational attainment affect educational homogamy?—Evidence from CGSS
International Studies of Economics, 2022 Family is the basic unit that constitutes social relations, and marriage‐matching determines the development trajectory of a household. Education has become one of the most important ingredients of marriage in modern society, and the proportion of ...
Congjia Huo, Lingming Chen
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Educational homogamy and assortative mating have not increased [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased.
Gihleb, Rania, Lang, Kevin
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Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Tertiary Education in Europe
Comparative Population StudiesIn this paper, we examine (1) whether parental educational homogamy is associated with children’s tertiary educational attainment in different European countries and (2) whether this association is moderated by families’ educational backgrounds.
Pia Blossfeld +2 more
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Who marries whom? Educational homogamy in Norway [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2003 A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited time period.
Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth, Heldal, Johan
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Educational homogamy: preferences or opportunities? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 Individuals match on length and type of education. We investigate whether the systematic relationship between educations of partners is explained by opportunities (e.g. low search frictions) or preferences (e.g.
Skyt Nielsen, Helena, Svarer, Michael
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Educational homogamy in Norway: Trends and patterns [PDF]
, 2000 This paper focuses on trends and patterns in educational homogamy over time. A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of homogamy in Norway.
Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth, Heldal, Johan
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Editorial on the Special Issue “Changes in Educational Homogamy and Its Consequences”
Comparative Population StudiesRecent decades have seen major changes in the educational profiles of the populations of Western industrialised countries, notably a sharp rise in educational attainment and a reversal of the gender gap in education.
Pia Blossfeld +2 more
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Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses.
Kraft, Kornelius, Neimann, Stefanie
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The Proximate Determinants of Educational Homogamy: The Effects of First Marriage, Marital Dissolution, Remarriage, and Educational Upgrading [PDF]
Demography, 2012 Christine R Schwartz, Robert D Mare
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