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Title: Sorting and Timing: Search, Population Structure, and Marriage Markets
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Lewis, Susan Kay |
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Sorting and Timing: Search, Population Structure, and Marriage Markets Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California -- Los Angeles, 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Assortative Mating; Census of Population; Demography; Educational Status; Family Studies; Marriage; Simultaneity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation documents the impact of marriage market composition on marriage timing and educational assortative mating. Whether local population constraints shape individual action is a central issue in social demography. But most research on marriage market composition examines only the effect of competition on either marriage timing or marital sorting alone. The search theoretic model on which this dissertation is based highlights the importance of considering both timing and sorting simultaneously, since individuals can adapt to shortages of available mates by adjusting either or both. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of local educational composition as well as competition. I ask three questions: Does educational sorting vary with age? Does it depend on the educational composition of local marriage markets? And does the connection between marriage timing and educational sorting depend on the marriage market's educational composition? To answer these questions I estimate a discrete-time competing risks model of the likelihoods of sorting successfully and unsuccessfully by education, using individual data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and community descriptors from aggregated U.S. Census microdata. Results support the idea that sorting varies with age: educationally good matches and bad matches occur in different age patterns. Furthermore, marital sorting outcomes depend on local educational composition. And the age pattern of educational sorting shifts with changes in local marriage markets' educational composition. In sum, the evidence suggests that timing and sorting are jointly shaped by individuals' adaptations to marriage market conditions. |
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Lewis, Susan Kay. Sorting and Timing: Search, Population Structure, and Marriage Markets. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California -- Los Angeles, 1997. |