Steven P. Martin

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol15/20/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2006.15.20

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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.

Author's affiliation
Steven P. Martin
University of Maryland College Park, United States of America

Keywords
education, family demography, marital dissolution, social inequality

Word count (Main text)
5394

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