Untangling the Role of Assortative Mating in Educational Reproduction in Twelve European Countries.
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A90274%2F24%3A00143112" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:90274/24:00143112 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/604" target="_blank" >https://www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS/article/view/604</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2024-15" target="_blank" >10.12765/CPoS-2024-15</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Untangling the Role of Assortative Mating in Educational Reproduction in Twelve European Countries.
Original language description
In this study, we explore how educational differences in demographic behavior – in particular, mating patterns and fertility – mediate the intergenerational reproduction of educational inequality in twelve European countries. Although this research interest itself is not new, we contribute to this debate by adopting a prospective approach and scaling it to include multiple countries and cohorts. To this end, we leverage a series of complementary datasets and the inferential method developed by Song and Mare (2015) and advanced by Skopek and Leopold(2020) to estimate the components of a stylized educational reproduction model. We then employ a simple decomposition analysis to quantify the contributions of different pathways to prospective educational reproduction rates across educational backgrounds and explore the differences across cohorts and countries. We report several findings. Most notably, (1) the intergenerational reproduction of educational inequality persists in all twelve countries and is barely offset by small (and declining) negative educational gradients in fertility, (2) educational differences in selection into partnership are small and do not account for much inequality, and (3) the role of assortative mating, where present, is ambiguous because it both reinforces inequality via its effects on resources within the family and offsets it via its effects on fertility.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Comparative Population Studies
ISSN
1869-8980
e-ISSN
1869-8999
Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
32
Pages from-to
371-402
UT code for WoS article
001349661700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105019676464