ArticleSocial science research2016
Does higher education expansion promote educational homogamy? Evidence from married couples of the post-80s generation in Shanghai, China.
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- Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits.Nature human behaviour · 2023Pooled it
- Division of Household Labor in Urban China: Couples' Education Pairing and Co-residence with Parents.Research in social stratification and mobility · 2024Article
- The Impact of Education on Fertility During the Chinese Reform Era (1980-2018): Changes Across Birth Cohorts and Interaction with Fertility Policies.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2024Article
- Mate selection among online daters in Shanghai: Why does education matter?Chinese journal of sociology · 2020Article
- Assortative Mating by Education and Hukou in Shanghai.Chinese sociological review · 2017Article
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The expansion of higher education witnessed in many societies influences the pattern of educational assortative mating. Structural transition theory predicts growing educational homogamy due to increasing preference for highly-educated partners who become more widely available. In contrast, social closure theory suggests depressed educational homogamy because the inflation of the education elite circle fosters the openness of marriage market, reducing the preference for a highly-educated mate and increasing the penetrability across social-status boundaries. Capitalizing the survey data that are representative of the post-80s one-child generation collected in Shanghai, China, we test the hypotheses derived from the two theories. Empirical results suggest that, with increasing availability of highly educated individuals, the extent of educational homogamy by birth cohort reveals a U-shaped pattern. This U-shaped pattern demonstrates increasing levels of educational homogamy and lends support to structural transition theory.
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