SOC303H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 5 leading #2: Real Marriage, Contingency Table, The Marriage Market
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The changing role of education in the marriage market: assortative marriage in. Canada and the united states since the 1970s. Distribution of income has become more unequal in wealthy counties. Men and women who have high earnings tend to marry each other. Well educated men and women marry each other higher potential earnings. Changes in educational homogamy can come from two sources: changes in marital opportunity structure (results come from more education, changes in marital preferences. Is it changes in relative rates, which means whether the function of education in mate selection is weakening or getting stronger. If it is just about more university men and women married, then we need to look at why women are getting an education. Absolute rate of marital homogamy from 1971 to 2001: compare usa and canada, canadian rates rose more rapidly and caught up to usas rates by 2000. Highly educated men, want to seek highly educated women.
