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Title: The Changing Importance of White Women's Economic Prospects for Assortative Mating
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Sweeney, Megan Mcdonnell Cancian, Maria |
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The Changing Importance of White Women's Economic Prospects for Assortative Mating Journal of Marriage and Family 66,4 (November 2004): 1015-1029. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00073.x/pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Assortative Mating; Economics of Gender; Labor Force Participation; Marriage; Socioeconomic Factors; Wages, Women Given recent changes in the labor force participation and economic standing of women, we ask whether a woman's position in the labor market has become a more important determinant of her position in the marriage market. Unlike much prior research on trends over time in assortative mating, we take an individual-level approach to the analysis and rely on improved measures of labor market position, such as measuring wives' wages before marriage and considering multiple indicators of husbands' longer term economic standing. Our analysis relies on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women (N= 759) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N= 767). Our results are consistent with growth over time in the importance of women's earnings potential in determining their marriage prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Sweeney, Megan Mcdonnell and Maria Cancian. "The Changing Importance of White Women's Economic Prospects for Assortative Mating." Journal of Marriage and Family 66,4 (November 2004): 1015-1029.
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