TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lyngstad, Torkild
T1  - The impact of parent's and spouses' education on divorce rates in Norway
Y1  - 2004/04/15
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 121
EP  - 142
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2004.10.5
VL  - 10
IS  - 5
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol10/5/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol10/5/10-5.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol10/5/10-5.pdf
N2  - According to both economic and sociological theory, a couple's divorce rate may be influenced by their own educational attainment, that of their parents, and whether they have taken further education after marriage, although predictions are ambiguous. However, these three variables have never been included simultaneously and few studies have included both partners' characteristics. A discrete-time hazard model based on register and census data on 54178 Norwegian first marriages started 1980-1999 reveals a very strong negative educational gradient in divorce risk and no particularly harmful influence of heterogamy. 

Parent's education exerts a small positive effect, however. Among couples with the same current level of education, those who have taken education after entry into marriage display the highest divorce rate.

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