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- Title
THE CHANGING ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE MARRIAGE MARKET: ASSORTATIVE MARRIAGE IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE 1970s.
- Authors
FENG HOU; MYLES, JOHN
- Abstract
This paper reports trends in educational assortative marriage in Canada and compares them to similar trends in the United States. We show that educational homogamy — the tendency of like to marry like — has risen in both countries over the last three decades. At the beginning of the 1970s, educational homogamy rates were substantially higher in the United States than in Canada. However, the tendency to marry across educational boundaries declined more rapidly in Canada than in the United States so that by century's end the two countries were virtually indistinguishable. Trends in both countries were mainly driven by changing patterns of mate selection rather than changes in the marital opportunity structure produced by growing similarity in the educational attainments of young men and women. We discuss these trends in the context of their implications for recent developments and future trends in family income inequality.
- Subjects
NORTH America; HOMOGAMY; EDUCATION &; demography; EDUCATION &; society; MARRIAGE; ENDOGAMY &; exogamy; SOCIAL history; ECONOMIC history; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2008, Vol 33, Issue 2, p337
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29173/cjs551