@article{Martin_15_20,
author = {Martin, Steven P.},
title={{Trends in Marital Dissolution by Women's Education in the United States}},
journal = {Demographic Research},
volume = {15},
number = {20},
pages = {537--560},
doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2006.15.20},
year = {2006},
abstract = {I use the Survey of Income and Program Participation (N = 16,452) to measure trends in marital dissolution rates for U.S. women by education level.  In marriage cohorts from the mid-1970s to the 1990s, marital dissolution rates fell among women with a 4-year college degree or more, but remained high among women with less than a 4-year college degree. This diverging trend began in the mid-1970s and is not explained by recent increases in women's overall educational attainment, nor by recent increases in age at marriage timing and premarital childbearing. These results suggest a growing association between socioeconomic disadvantage and family instability.},
URL = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol15/20/},
eprint = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol15/20/15-20.pdf}
}