Untangling the Role of Assortative Mating in Educational Reproduction in Twelve European Countries.

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Untangling the Role of Assortative Mating in Educational Reproduction in Twelve European Countries.

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Untangling the Role of Assortative Mating in Educational Reproduction in Twelve European Countries.

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50400 - Sociology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

—

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Comparative Population Studies

ISSN

1869-8980

e-ISSN

1869-8999

Svazek periodika

49

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

October

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

32

Strana od-do

371-402

Kód UT WoS článku

001349661700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105019676464