@article{51636,
  author = {Hao Dong and Yu Xie},
  title = {Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China Over the Past Century},
  abstract = {<p>In the past century, China has undergone rapid and dramatic social and economic changes. This article describes trends in educational assortative marriages of cohorts born in 1906{\textendash}1995 in China. We measure educational attainment relatively as an individual{\textquoteright}s percentile position in the education distribution of a 10-year birth cohort and study trends using comparable, easy-to-interpret couple rank-rank correlations. We analyze microdata samples from the 1982, 1990, 2000, and 2010 China censuses and the 2015 1\% intercensus survey and nationally representative surveys between 1996 and 2018. We find a large and steady increase in educational assortative marriage over the past century, except among those born in 1946{\textendash}1965, whose schooling and marriage were impacted by the Cultural Revolution. Our study highlights the critical roles of social, political, and economic contexts in shaping trends in educational assortative marriage.</p>
},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Demography},
  volume = {60},
  pages = {123{\textendash}145},
  month = {01/2023},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10411058},
}