Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Origin and Education in the United States.
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SUBMITTER: Schwartz CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5214284 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
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Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Origin and Education in the United States.
Schwartz Christine R CR Zeng Zhen Z Xie Yu Y
Sociological science 20161128
Intermarriage plays a key role in stratification systems. Spousal resemblance reinforces social boundaries within and across generations, and the rules of intermarriage govern the ways that social mobility may occur. We examine intermarriage across social origin and education boundaries in the United States using data from the 1968-2013 Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our evidence points to a pattern of status exchange-that is, persons with high education from modest backgrounds tend to marry th ...[more]
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