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- Title
Changes in assortative matching and educational inequality: evidence from marriage and birth records in Mexico.
- Authors
Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Penglase, Jacob
- Abstract
Over the past three decades, educational attainment in Mexico has grown substantially. This increase in educational attainment may affect marriage patterns through the growing supply of individuals with higher education and changing preferences over their partner's education level. We use administrative marriage and birth certificate records to quantify changes in the relative education levels for both married and unmarried couples. Our results suggest that individuals who marry outside their education category prefer to match with a partner with a similar education level. That is, college graduates prefer to match with individuals with a secondary education rather than those with a primary education. We also find that assortativeness among pairs which include college graduates has grown considerably over this time period. Our findings hold across both marriage records and birth certificate records, indicating a parallel increase in assortativeness regardless of marital status.
- Subjects
MEXICO; EDUCATIONAL equalization; PRIMARY education
- Publication
Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, Vol 89, Issue 4, p587
- ISSN
2054-0892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/dem.2022.27