Silvana Salvini
Daniele Vignoli

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/5/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.5

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Abstract

We study women’s and men’s marital disruption in Italy between 1970 and 2003. By applying an event-history analysis to the 2003 Italian variant of the Generations and Gender Survey we found that the spread of marital disruption started among middle-highly educated women. Then in recent years it appears that less educated women have also been able to dissolve their unhappy unions. Overall we can see the beginning of a reversed educational gradient from positive to negative. In contrast the trend in men’s marital disruption risk appears as a change over time common to all educational groups, although with persisting educational differentials.

Author's affiliation
Silvana Salvini
University of Florence, Italy
Daniele Vignoli
University of Florence, Italy

Keywords
determinants, educational differences, event history analysis, gender difference, Italy, marital disruption

Word count (Main text)
7096

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