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Author: Schwartz, Christine R.
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1. Schwartz, Christine R.
Educational Homogamy in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: A Test of the Double Selection Hypothesis
Working Paper, Department of Sociology, University of California - Los Angeles, August 2004.
Also: http://www.iuperj.br/rc28/papers/schwartz_rc282004_final.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Keyword(s): Assortative Mating; Cohabitation; Education; Marriage

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This study uses log-linear models and data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to compare the odds of educational homogamy in marriage and cohabitation. I find that differences in the educational resemblance of married and cohabiting couples vary considerably depending on the sample used and the point at which assortative mating patterns are measured. Cohabiting couples are much less likely to be educationally homogamous than married couples using a sample of prevailing unions. Restricting the sample to newly formed unions, however, largely eliminates this difference. Nevertheless, I find support for the hypothesis that couples who enter marriage via cohabitation are 'doubly selected' and are more homogamous than cohabiting couples who split up. I find no difference in the educational resemblance of couples whose marriages are preceded by cohabitation and those marry without first cohabiting.
Bibliography Citation
Schwartz, Christine R. "Educational Homogamy in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: A Test of the Double Selection Hypothesis." Working Paper, Department of Sociology, University of California - Los Angeles, August 2004.
2. Schwartz, Christine R.
Educational Homogamy in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: A Test of the Double Selection Hypothesis
Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2005
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Assortative Mating; Cohabitation; Marriage; Modeling

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I use log-linear models and data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the 1987-88 and 1992-94 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to compare the odds of educational homogamy in cohabitation and marriage. Preliminary results using NLSY79 data show that differences in the educational resemblance of married and cohabiting couples vary depending on the sample used and the point at which assortative mating patterns are measured. Cohabitors are much less likely to be educationally homogamous than married couples using a sample of prevailing unions. Restricting the sample to newly formed unions, however, eliminates this difference. Nevertheless, I find support for the hypothesis that couples who enter marriage via cohabitation are "doubly selected" and are more homogamous than cohabiting couples who split up. I find no difference in the resemblance of couples whose marriages are preceded by cohabitation and those marry without first cohabiting.
Bibliography Citation
Schwartz, Christine R. "Educational Homogamy in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: A Test of the Double Selection Hypothesis." Presented: Philadelphia, PA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2005.
3. Schwartz, Christine R.
Pathways to Educational Homogamy in Marital and Cohabiting Unions
Demography 47,3 (August 2010): 735-753.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u377n482781tv002/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Assortative Mating; Cohabitation; Divorce; Educational Attainment; Homogamy; Marriage

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There is considerable disagreement about whether cohabitors are more or less likely to be educationally homogamous than married couples. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I reconcile many of the disparate findings of previous research by conducting a "stock and flow" analysis of assortative cohabitation and marriage. I find that cohabitors are less likely to be educationally homogamous than married couples overall, but these differences are not apparent when cohabiting and marital unions begin. Instead, the results suggest that differences in educational homogamy by union type are driven by selective exits from marriage and cohabitation rather than by differences in partner choice. Marriages that cross educational boundaries are particularly likely to end. The findings suggest that although cohabitors place greater emphasis on egalitarianism than married couples, this does not translate into greater educational homogamy. The findings are also consistent with a large body of research on cohabitation and divorce questioning the effectiveness of cohabitation as a trial marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bibliography Citation
Schwartz, Christine R. "Pathways to Educational Homogamy in Marital and Cohabiting Unions." Demography 47,3 (August 2010): 735-753.
4. Schwartz, Christine R.
Mare, Robert D.
The Proximate Determinants of Educational Homogamy: The Effects of First Marriage, Marital Dissolution, Remarriage, and Educational Upgrading
Demography 49,2 (May 2012): 629-650.
Also: http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-012-0093-0
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Assortative Mating; Education; Educational Attainment; Homogamy; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Remarriage

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper adapts the population balancing equation to develop a framework for studying the proximate determinants of educational homogamy. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on a cohort of women born between 1957 and 1964, we decompose the odds of homogamy in prevailing marriages into four proximate determinants: (1) first marriages, (2) first and later marital dissolutions, (3) remarriages, and (4) educational attainment after marriage. The odds of homogamy among new first marriages are lower than among prevailing marriages, but not because of selective marital dissolution, remarriage, and educational attainment after marriage, as has been speculated. Prevailing marriages are more likely to be educationally homogamous than new first marriages because of the accumulation of homogamous first marriages in the stock of marriages. First marriages overwhelmingly account for the odds of homogamy in prevailing marriages in this cohort. Marital dissolutions, remarriages, and educational upgrades after marriage have relatively small and offsetting effects. Our results suggest that, despite the high prevalence of divorce, remarriage, and continued schooling after marriage in the United States, the key to understanding trends in educational homogamy lies primarily in variation in assortative mating into first marriage.
Bibliography Citation
Schwartz, Christine R. and Robert D. Mare. "The Proximate Determinants of Educational Homogamy: The Effects of First Marriage, Marital Dissolution, Remarriage, and Educational Upgrading." Demography 49,2 (May 2012): 629-650.