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Title: Marriage Outcomes of First-Generation College Graduates: Marital Market Constraint or Incomplete Assimilation?
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King, MIke |
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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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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. |