Marital homogamy in the United States: The influence of individual and paternal education
Marital homogamy in the United States: The influence of individual and paternal education
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DOI：
10.1006/ssre.1998.0618
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发表时间：
1998-06-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Blackwell, DL
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作者：
Blackwell, DL
利用第一波全国家庭和住户调查中的初婚信息，我形成了妻子的出生队列和父亲教育指标，然后构建了一个四向交叉分类表，包括丈夫的教育程度、妻子的教育程度、妻子的出生队列和妻子的父亲教育程度。使用准独立和交叉参数关联模型对所得表格进行检查，并提出了描述该表所暗示的教育同质性和通婚程度的拟合参数。然后为丈夫形成类似的队列和父亲教育指标，并构建第二个四向表，其中包含相同的丈夫和妻子教育指标。进行相同的分析，得出第二组同质性和通婚参数。由于两张表中丈夫和妻子的受教育程度没有变化，而且他们的出生队列相似，因此两组参数的差异很大程度上是由于两个父亲受教育程度指标的影响不同造成的。我表明，父亲教育对同婚和异族通婚的影响因性别而异，妻子似乎比丈夫从父亲教育的额外投入中受益更多。因此，我认为继承的教育状况可能在决定女儿最终的婚姻结果方面发挥更重要的作用。 (C) 1998 年学术出版社。
Using information on first marriages from wave one of the National Survey of Families and Households, I form indicators of birth cohort and paternal education for wives, and then construct a four-way cross-classification table including husband's education, wife's education, wife's birth cohort, and wife's paternal education. The resulting table is examined using Quasi-independence and Crossing Parameter models of association, and fitted parameters describing the extent of educational homogamy and intermarriage implied by this table are presented. Then similar cohort and paternal education indicators are formed for husbands and a second four-way table is constructed, which incorporates the same husband and wife education indicators. Identical analyses are carried out, resulting in a second set of homogamy and intermarriage parameters. Since husband and wife's educations do not change across the two tables and their birth cohorts are similar, it follows that any differences in the two sets of parameters are largely the result of differences in the effects of the two paternal education indicators. I show that the effect of paternal education on homogamy and intermarriage varies by gender, in such a way that wives appear to benefit more from added inputs of paternal education than do husbands. I argue as a result that inherited educational status may play a more important role in determining daughters' eventual marital outcomes. (C) 1998 Academic Press.