Partner Choice in Marriages and Cohabitations

Schoen, Robert; Weinick, Robin M.

doi:10.2307/352811

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“…Similarly, anthropological evidence points to the cultural identity of the children as a determinant of marriage choice (see, e.g., Riesman and Szanton 1992). Also, the documented fact that cohabitations are both much less fertile and less homogamous than marriages can be interpreted as evidence that homogamy matters mostly for fertile unions (see Rindefuss and VandenHeuvel [1990] for relative fertility of cohabitation and Schoen and Weinick [1993] for homogamy rates). Finally, most major religious Note.-Each cell reports the sample probability that a child in the row marriage is a member of the column religious group.…”

Section: Intermarriage and Socialization In The United Statesmentioning

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Religious Intermarriage and Socialization in the United States

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2004

Journal of Political Economy

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This paper presents an empirical analysis of a choice-theoretic model of cultural transmission. In particular, we use data from the General Social Survey to estimate the structural parameters of a model of marriage and child socialization along religious lines in the United States. The observed intermarriage and socialization rates are consistent with Protestants, Catholics, and Jews having a strong preference for children who identify with their own religious beliefs and making costly decisions to influence their children's religious beliefs. Our estimates imply dynamics of the shares of religious traits in the population that are in sharp contrast with the predictions obtained by linear extrapolations from current intermarriage rates.

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Section: Intermarriage and Socialization In The United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Intermarriage and Socialization in the United States

Bisin

Topa

Verdier

2004

Journal of Political Economy

246

169

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“…The first theory starts from the observation that homogamy is the norm while heterogamy is aberrant (Kalmijn et al 2005). It is well know that people tend to choose partners with similar age, religious, ethnic, educational, and family characteristics (Kalmijn 1991;Kalmijn 1998;Schoen and Weinick 1993). Individual preferences underpin such partner choices, and people choose partners with similar characteristics because they are more likely to have similar values, tastes, and behaviours, including views on issues such as gender roles, division of labour in the household and the upbringing of children.…”

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Les unions mixtes sont-elles plus fragiles que les unions entre partenaires de même origine ethnique? Nouveaux résultats pour la Grande-Bretagne

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The increasing proportion of ethnic minorities in Britain has been paralleled by an increase in the occurrence of mixed ethnic marriages between one White partner and an ethnic minority partner. Such marriages are thought to be at higher risk of divorce, but empirical studies so far have been inconclusive. This paper uses the Office for National Statistics longitudinal study for England and Wales to investigate whether mixed ethnic unions are more likely to end in divorce than co-ethnic unions. We followed married couples in 1991 to 2001 and examined their risks of divorce. We found evidence that mixed ethnic unions have a higher risk of dissolution than co-ethnic unions. However, after controlling for partners' characteristics, most importantly the younger ages of people in mixed ethnic unions, the risk of divorce for mixed ethnic unions was no longer elevated, but lay close to the higher risk found for the two constituent co-ethnic unions.

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“…The literature suggests that less institutionalised unions tend to be more mixed (Schoen 1993;. Exogamous unions would therefore be expected to be more frequent in cohabitation -where marriage migration plays no role -than in marriage.…”

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