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Marriage Squeeze for Highly Educated Women? Gender Differences in Assortative Marriage in Urban China

Qian, Yue
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337371626

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2012, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
Today in urban China, it is common to refer to highly-educated women who are still single in their late twenties as “leftover ladies”; however, empirical research has yet to examine the impact of education and age on marriage. This study pools four years of the Chinese General Social Survey (2003, 2005, 2006, and 2008) data to investigate the gendered patterns of marriage by education and age in the early years of the twenty-first century in urban China. Results show that the gender gap in marriage rates has reversed from favoring women to favoring men as education increases. Particularly, the female disadvantage in marriage markets is only experienced by highly educated women at older ages (i.e., 30 – 49). Log-linear models indicate a gender asymmetry in assortative marriage patterns: men display a tendency to marry younger, less-educated women than themselves, and women display a tendency to marry older, better-educated men than themselves, net of the disparate marginal distributions of age and educational attainment of both sexes. The educational hypergamy pattern does not change as women marry later, but is more likely to occur as men marry at older ages. These results indicate gender-asymmetric patterns of marriage formation and assortative mating by education and age in urban China.
Zhenchao Qian, PhD (Committee Chair)
Chris Knoester, PhD (Committee Member)
Liana Sayer, PhD (Committee Member)
61 p.
Sociology

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  • Qian, Y. (2012). Marriage Squeeze for Highly Educated Women? Gender Differences in Assortative Marriage in Urban China [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337371626

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Qian, Yue. Marriage Squeeze for Highly Educated Women? Gender Differences in Assortative Marriage in Urban China. 2012. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337371626.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Qian, Yue. "Marriage Squeeze for Highly Educated Women? Gender Differences in Assortative Marriage in Urban China." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337371626

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