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Published: 10 June 2020
Fig. 1 Percentage of educational hypergamy (H > W) and hypogamy (H < W) given heterogamy (H ≠ W) by marriage cohort and data source. H = husband’s education; W = wife’s education. Sources: 2011–2012 India Human Development Survey (IHDS) and 2014–2015 National Family Health Survey (NFHS).
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 3 Odds of educational homogamy (W=H), hypogamy (W>H), and hypergamy (W<H) among different-sex prevailing marriages, 1940–2020. Data are from the 1940–2000 U.S. decennial censuses and 2001–2020 American Community Survey (IPUMS). Wives are aged 18–40. W = wives’ education. H = husbands
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1215–1240.
Published: 10 June 2020
...Fig. 1 Percentage of educational hypergamy (H > W) and hypogamy (H < W) given heterogamy (H ≠ W) by marriage cohort and data source. H = husband’s education; W = wife’s education. Sources: 2011–2012 India Human Development Survey (IHDS) and 2014–2015 National Family Health Survey (NFHS). ...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1197–1216.
Published: 24 January 2013
... formation. We find that being partnered with someone with more education (hypergamy) is associated with higher earnings, while partnering someone with less education (hypogamy) is associated with lower earnings. However, most of these differences in earnings emerge prior to the time of marriage, implying...
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Published: 24 January 2013
Fig. 1 Hypergamy and hypogamy premiums for men, by education. Education: 1 = ≤ nine years of school; 2 = two years of high school; 3 = three years of high school; 4 = two years of university; 5 = ≥ three years of university
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Published: 24 January 2013
Fig. 2 Hypergamy and hypogamy premiums for women, by education. Education: 1 = ≤ nine years of school; 2 = two years of high school; 3 = three years of high school; 4 = two years of university; 5 = ≥ three years of university
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1195–1220.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... However, gains in women's schooling may have unexpected implications for female autonomy in contexts where hypergamy norms—the ideal that men should marry down and women should marry up in education and other markers of status—are still dominant. This study addresses difficulties in evaluating the causal...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2161–2186.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ; Hout and DiPrete 2006 ). In absolute terms, with educational expansion and therefore a greater number of women than men in higher education, educational hypergamy (women marrying up) is decreasing, whereas both homogamy and hypogamy (women marrying down) are increasing in many countries ( Esteve et al...
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in Potential (Mis)match? Marriage Markets Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050
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Published: 21 January 2015
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 183–208.
Published: 21 January 2015
... homogamy and converging educational hypergamy and hypogamy by 2050 (dotted-dashed line) ...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 August 1998
... age assortative mating. The changes in L2in these models also indicate that both asymmetry and crossings pa- rameters have improved the model fit. Thus, patterns of age and educational assortative mating are not only affected by age and educational hypergamy or hypogamy but also by age...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2331–2349.
Published: 30 October 2017
... the ages of partnering and parenthood. Recent studies have shown that the gender-specific trends in educational enrollment have indeed undermined the traditional pattern of educational hypergamy (women marrying up). Hypogamy (women marrying down) has become more prevalent than hypergamy in most...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 835–856.
Published: 09 May 2014
... intermarriage in the United States assumed that the educationally asymmetric pairings predicted by the theory—those characterized by white educational hypergamy, in which the black spouse has more education than the white spouse—would be the most common form of interracial union. These studies found little...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 177–185.
Published: 01 May 2001
... foreign-born West Indians by age of arrival allows us to measure quite confi- dently the effects of generation. Drawing on prior research, our analysis also includes five covariates: age, education, hypergamy, cohabitation, and place of residence. All but the last of these are dichotomized because our...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 571–602.
Published: 01 April 2021
... , and implications . First, using 126 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) collected between 1986 and 2016, I provide an overview of educational assortative mating patterns across 39 countries in SSA ( trends ). Despite a series of global and comparative studies documenting declining hypergamy (i.e., unions in which...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 171–194.
Published: 09 January 2020
... market mismatch” scenario, rapid relative improvements in women’s educational attainment, combined with limited change in normative desires and expectations regarding educational homogamy and female educational hypergamy, make it numerically more difficult for highly educated women (and less-educated men...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 349–369.
Published: 01 February 2022
... that “the reversal of the gender gap in education is strongly associated with the end of hypergamy and increases in hypogamy” ( Esteve et al. 2016:615 ). Here, educational hypergamy refers to marriages in which women marry up in education, and educational hypogamy refers to marriages in which women marry down...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1869–1892.
Published: 21 September 2015
... ). Our results provide empirical evidence that women with college education in the late-reform cohort had a much lower likelihood of marriage entry than their less-educated counterparts. One possible explanation for this pattern is the traditional pressure of hypergamy in China (Mu and Xie 2014...
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 673–689.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to upper-class blacks rather than to highly educated blacks. Research has typically used education as a proxy for class on the marriage market because of its value in predicting future earnings and prestige. Thus, I refer speci cally to education throughout this article. 2. Hypergamy and hypogamy mean...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 May 1997
... hypergamy ratio. The hypergamy ratio examines whether women are more likely to marry men higher than they are in education than to marry men lower than they are in education. Based on the observed frequen- cies of marriages by couples' educational attainment for any racial combination, I first calculate...
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