TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martin, Steven P.
T1  - Trends in Marital Dissolution by Women's Education in the United States
Y1  - 2006/12/13
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 537
EP  - 560
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2006.15.20
VL  - 15
IS  - 20
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol15/20/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol15/20/15-20.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol15/20/15-20.pdf
N2  - 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.

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