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Author: King, MIke
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First-Generation College Students and Patterns of Cohabitation and Marriage Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Cohabitation; College Education; Educational Attainment; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Recent work has highlighted the relationship between demographic processes in the parent generation and subsequent intergenerational mobility. Specifically, researchers have illustrated the importance of incorporating demographic mechanisms into models of intergenerational transmission of status. Less work, however, has examined this interplay from the reverse direction. In this paper, I turn the relationship around, asking how experiencing intergenerational mobility might influence subsequent demographic processes. To answer this, I focus on how union formation (both cohabitation and marriage) is related to children earning higher levels of education than their parents (e.g., first-generation college students). Using data from NLSY97, I build discrete-time event history models to test a series of alternative hypotheses about the role of intergenerational educational mobility in union formation patterns. This paper examines heterogeneity in the relationship between educational attainment and union formation while also contributing a new perspective on the interplay between demographic processes, intergenerational mobility, and social reproduction. |
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King, MIke. "First-Generation College Students and Patterns of Cohabitation and Marriage." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |
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Marriage Outcomes of First-Generation College Graduates: Marital Market Constraint or Incomplete Assimilation? Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; College Graduates; Marital History/Transitions; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper, I use NLSY79 to compare marital patterns of first-generation college graduates to non-college graduates and second-generation college graduates. I test marriage market explanations and social and cultural capital explanations for why first-generation graduates might have different marriage outcomes. Marriage market explanations predict that first-generation graduates might experience constrained marriage markets (because of difficulty integrating) and lower rates of marriage than non-college graduates or other college graduates. On the other hand, social and cultural capital explanations suggest that first-generation college graduates might experience marital outcomes somewhere in between those of non-graduates and other college graduates (because of incomplete assimilation). Initial results indicate that the age of first marriage for first-generation graduates does fall somewhere in between non-graduates and second-generation graduates (supporting the idea of incomplete assimilation), but that first-generation graduates have similar likelihoods of ever being married and similar levels of educational homogamy as second-generation graduates. |
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Bibliography Citation
King, MIke. "Marriage Outcomes of First-Generation College Graduates: Marital Market Constraint or Incomplete Assimilation?" Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |