Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003
Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003
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DOI：
10.1353/dem.2005.0036
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发表时间：
2005-11-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Mare, RD
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作者：
Schwartz, CR;Mare, RD
本文报道了1940年至2003年美国教育选型婚姻的趋势。对人口普查和当前人口调查数据的分析表明，1940年至1960年，教育同性婚姻有所减少，但1960年至2003年有所增加。从1960年到1970年代初，教育程度相同的婚姻的增加是由于受教育程度相对较高的人群之间通婚的减少。尤其是大学毕业生，他们结婚的可能性越来越大，而不是教育程度较低的人。然而，从20世纪70年代初开始，受教育程度相同的同性婚姻的可能性持续增加，这是由于受教育程度分布两端的异族婚姻减少。最引人注目的是那些教育水平很低的人结婚的几率下降了。大学毕业生和那些“上过一些大学”的人之间的通婚继续减少，但速度更为缓慢。由于在教育分布的极端，异族婚姻减少了，中间部分的分布增加了这些趋势，这是类似的已婚夫妇和新婚夫妇的广泛横截面，是与教育水平很低的人和那些有更多的教育在美国之间的社会鸿沟越来越大。
This paper reports trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 in the United States. Analyses of census and Current Population Survey data show that educational homogamy decreased from 1940 to 1960 but increased from 1960 to 2003. From 1960 to the early 1970s, increases in educational homogamy were generated by decreasing intermarriage among groups of relatively well-educated persons. College graduates, in particular were increasingly likely to marry each other rather than those with less education. Beginning in the early 1970s, however continued increases in the odds of educational homogamy were generated by decreases in intermarriage at both ends of the education distribution. Most striking is the decline in the odds that those with very low levels of education marry up. Intermarriage between college graduates and those with "some college" continued to decline but at a more gradual pace. As intermarriage declined at the extremes of the education distribution, intermarriage among those in the middle portion of the distribution increased These trends, which are similar for a broad cross section of married couples and for newlyweds, are consistent with a growing social divide between those with very low levels of education and those with more education in the United States.