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- Title
The Long-Term Impact of College Education on Women's Attitudes Toward Marriage and Children.
- Authors
Kim, Dahye; Jung, Haeil
- Abstract
Social attitudes toward marriage and motherhood have shifted away from the traditional norms of universal marriage and childbearing. While the second demographic transition theory stresses the importance of education in bringing ideational changes behind low fertility and low marriage rates, a causal link between college education and attitudinal change has not been studied much. To fill this literature gap, this study demonstrates the enduring impact of college education on women's family attitudes using South Korea's policy shock, which offered people the opportunity to attend college in the 1980s. This study finds that college education in the 1980s encouraged women to have non-traditional attitudes toward marriage and motherhood. Women who attended college via the graduation quota program reported that marriage and giving birth at a young age were not necessary more than women without the opportunity. We constructed a composite index of family formulation which showed the same result.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; WOMEN'S education; SOCIALIZATION; MARRIAGE; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CHILDBEARING age; PSYCHOLOGY of women; COLLEGE graduates; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; FERTILITY; LITERATURE reviews; STATISTICAL models; RELIGION
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 2024, Vol 45, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0192513X221150982