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Title: Educational Assortative Mating and Income Dynamics in Couples: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
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Qian, Yue |
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Educational Assortative Mating and Income Dynamics in Couples: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective Journal of Marriage and Family 80,3 (June 2018): 607-621. Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12470 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Assortative Mating; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Husbands, Income; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Marriage; Wives, Income Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The question of how educational assortative mating may transform couples' lives and within-family gender inequality has gained increasing attention. Using 25 waves (1979–2012) of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and longitudinal multilevel dyad models, this study investigated how educational assortative mating shapes income dynamics in couples during the marital life course. Couples were grouped into three categories--educational hypergamy (wives less educated than their husbands), homogamy, and hypogamy (wives more educated than their husbands). Results show that change in husbands' income with marital duration is similar across couples, whereas change in wives' income varies by educational assortative mating, with wives in educational hypogamy exhibiting more positive change in income during the marital life course. The finding that husbands' long-term economic advancement is less affected than that of wives by educational assortative mating underscores the gender-asymmetric nature of spousal influence in heterosexual marriages. |
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Qian, Yue. "Educational Assortative Mating and Income Dynamics in Couples: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective." Journal of Marriage and Family 80,3 (June 2018): 607-621.
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