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Title: First-Generation College Students and Patterns of Cohabitation and Marriage
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1. King, MIke
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

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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.