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Title: A Quantitative Analysis of Marital Age Gaps in the U.S. between 1970 and 2014

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN: 9780355952667

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Abstract: Measuring spouses’ ages allows us to explore larger sociological issues about marriage, such as whether narrowing gaps signal gender progress or if a rise in female-older unions reveals a status change. Using Census and American Community Survey data, I test the merits of beauty-exchange and status homogamy theories as explanations for how heterosexual marital age gaps changed over a 40-year period of social and economic revolution. Analyses address questions about how age gaps compared for people with different characteristics, whether similarly aged couples exhibited greater educational and socio-economic homogamy than others, and if the odds of being in age-heterogamous marriages changed.

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Authors: Feighan, Kelly, A

Institution: Temple University

Department: Sociology

Advisor: Levine, Judith A.

Degree: Ph.D.

Publisher Location: Pennsylvania, US

Pages: 216

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Population Data Science

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