Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Origin and Education in the United States.
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This study examines intermarriage across social origin and education boundaries in the United States using data from the 1968–2013 Panel Study of Income Dynamics and shows that the rules of exchange are more consistent with the notion of diminishing marginal utility than the more general theory of compensating differentials.Abstract:
Intermarriage plays a key role in stratification systems. Spousal resemblance reinforces social boundaries within and across generations, and the rules of intermarriage govern the ways that social mobility may occur. We examine intermarriage across social origin and education boundaries in the United States using data from the 1968-2013 Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our evidence points to a pattern of status exchange-that is, persons with high education from modest backgrounds tend to marry those with lower education from more privileged backgrounds. Our study contributes to an active methodological debate by pinpointing the conditions under which the results pivot from evidence against exchange to evidence for exchange and advances theory by showing that the rules of exchange are more consistent with the notion of diminishing marginal utility than the more general theory of compensating differentials.read more
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Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage From 1940 to 2003 - eScholarship
TL;DR: Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 in the United States are consistent with a growing social divide between those with very low levels of education and those with more education in theUnited States.
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The American Occupational Structure
TL;DR: The American Occupational Structure (AOS) as discussed by the authors is the classic source of empirical information on the patterns of occupational achievement in American society and is renowned for its pioneering methods of statistical analysis as well as for its far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupational mobility in the United States.
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Marriage Markets and Intermarriage: Exchange in First Marriages and Remarriages
Zhenchao Qian,Daniel T. Lichter +1 more
TL;DR: Drawing on data from the American Community Survey, patterns of assortative mating in first marriages, remarriages, and mixed-order marriages are compared and it is revealed that previously married individuals “cast a wider net”: spousal pairings are more heterogamous among remar marriages than among first marriages.
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The Study of Assortative Mating: Theory, Data, and Analysis
Daniel T. Lichter,Zhenchao Qian +1 more
TL;DR: Assortative mating provides an indicator of integration and fragmentation in modern societies, and of shifting social boundaries between groups as mentioned in this paper, and is expressed in both marital homogamy (likes marrying likes) and heterogamy, variously labeled exogamy or intermarriage.
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Mismatches in the Marriage Market
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an assessment of whether unmarried women currently face demographic shortages of marital partners in the U.S. marriage market and identified recent marriages from the 2008 to 2012 and 2013 to 2017 cumulative 5-year files of the American Community Survey.
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