From reds to riches: Contemporary changes of educational assortative mating in China

Wang, Freda Yanrong; Wong, Roderick

doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2017.06.001

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“…Regression-type models are novel statistical techniques to compare two-way tables across layer variables (such as periods, cohorts, and countries), and provide similarities and differences in the patterns of the two-way associations across the layers. However, regression-type models have rarely been applied to empirical studies ( Bouchet-Valat, 2014 ; Vallet, 2004 ; Wang & Wong, 2017 ). The regression-type model sets up two HW association patterns: the baseline and deviation characteristics of HW associations for each cohort.…”

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“…Reflecting the abovementioned reasons, this topic attracts many sociologists and demographers. In fact, many studies have investigated the patterns and levels of educational assortative marriage across countries ( Halpin & Chan, 2003 ; Hou & Myles, 2008 ; Smits & Park, 2009 ; Smits, Ultee, & Lammers, 1998 ; Torche, 2010 ; Ultee & Luijkx, 1990 ) as well as trends within them ( Birkelund & Heldal, 2003 ; Mare, 1991 ; Park & Smits, 2005 ; Raymo & Xie, 2000 ; Schwartz & Mare, 2005 ; Wang & Wong, 2017 ; Wong, 2003 ). Since these studies show mixed empirical evidence on changes in educational assortative marriage in different countries ( Blossfeld, 2009 ), as we review below, multiple hypotheses have been proposed to explain cross-cultural differences in trends in educational assortative marriage.…”

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Declining association with persistent gender asymmetric structure: patterns and trends in educational assortative marriage in Japan, 1950–1979

Fujihara

Uchikoshi

2019

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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This paper investigates the patterns and trends of educational assortative marriage in Japan. Using data from the Employment Status Survey and the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the People on Health and Welfare, we investigated the trends of association between husbands’ and wives’ educational attainment (481,144 couples) by applying log-linear, log-multiplicative layer effects, and regression-type models. The analysis revealed that, in general, educational assortative marriage has decreased continuously. In terms of the log-odds ratios, the association of educational attainment between spouses for women born between 1975 and 1979 decreased by about 25%, in comparison with that of women born between 1950 and 1954. The regressiontype models showed that the pattern of association was asymmetric while patterns of change were symmetric with respect to sex. We discuss what caused the decline in educational assortative marriage with a persistent gender asymmetric structure.

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Declining association with persistent gender asymmetric structure: patterns and trends in educational assortative marriage in Japan, 1950–1979

Fujihara

Uchikoshi

2019

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…Studies of educational assortative mating in China lend support to the idea that human capital is increasingly important in the early stages of economic development. In tandem with growing economic development, educational homogamy rose sharply after the late 1970 s (Wang & Wong, 2017). Correspondingly, the inverted U hypothesis predicts an increase in hukou endogamy (decrease in intermarriage).…”

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Hukou intermarriage and social exclusion in China

Wang

Schwartz

2018

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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is a key marker of status in contemporary China. Urban status confers large economic benefits such as preferential access to good schools, prestigious occupations, and state-subsidized welfare benefits. As such, trends in intermarriage convey important but underappreciated information about social mobility in China. This article examines trends in intermarriage between 1958 and 2008. We find that intermarriage is surprisingly common and has grown steadily since 1985. Hypotheses derived from Western contexts do little to explain this trend. Increased education, economic inequality, and availability each fail to explain trends as predicted in prior work. A common hypothesis is that increased inequality should reduce intermarriage by making it more costly to "marry down." We find the opposite-increasing inequality is associated with increasing intermarriage, particularly between urban men and rural women, which is consistent with the hypothesis that the costs of marrying down may be outweighed by the incentives to marry up in this context. Our results also suggest conversion plays a key role in increased intermarriage. These findings highlight the uniqueness of the Chinese context and suggest that standard hypotheses about assortative mating may not be applicable in contexts with strong state-controlled social boundaries.

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“…The major lim i ta tion of the log-mul ti pli ca tive layer effect model is that it assumes the pat tern of the edu ca tional categories in both gen ders to be the same across cohorts, and allows only the strength of the pat tern to change (Fujihara and Uchikoshi 2019;Henz and Mills 2018). Because I attempt to mea sure the change in the struc ture of and asso ci a tion betweencou ple'sedu ca tioncategories,IadoptedtheRC(M)asso cia tion model, as it not only can com pare the asso ci a tion between two ordi nal var i ables across tables, but also allows both the pat tern and the strength of the asso ci a tion to change across tables (Clogg and Shihadeh 1994).AlthoughtheRC(M)asso ci a tion modelisnotwidelyusedinassortativemat ingresearch,ithasbeenshowntofitthe set ting well (Henz and Mills 2018;Torche 2010;Wang and Wong 2017;Zhou 2016). In this arti cle, all the mod els are constructed on the three-way con tin gency table of hus band's edu ca tional attain ment H (i = 1, .…”

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Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China

Feng

2022

Demography

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Existing research on assortative mating has examined marriage between people with different levels of education, yet heterogeneity in educational assortative mating outcomes of college graduates has been mostly ignored. Using data from the 2010 Chinese Family Panel Study and log-multiplicative models, this study examines the changing structure and association of husbands' and wives' educational attainment between 1980 and 2010, a period in which Chinese higher education experienced rapid expansion and stratification. Results show that the graduates of first-tier institutions are less likely than graduates of lower-ranked colleges to marry someone without a college degree. Moreover, from 1980 to 2010, female first-tier-college graduates were increasingly more likely to marry people who graduated from similarly prestigious colleges, although there is insufficient evidence to draw the same conclusion about their male counterparts. This study thus demonstrates the extent of heterogeneity in educational assortative mating patterns among college graduates and the tendency for elite college graduates to marry within the educational elite.

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From reds to riches: Contemporary changes of educational assortative mating in China

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Declining association with persistent gender asymmetric structure: patterns and trends in educational assortative marriage in Japan, 1950–1979

Declining association with persistent gender asymmetric structure: patterns and trends in educational assortative marriage in Japan, 1950–1979

Hukou intermarriage and social exclusion in China

Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China

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