The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Maria Stanfors. Photo.

Maria Stanfors

Professor

Maria Stanfors. Photo.

Educational Assortative Mating and Household Division of Labor : A pan-European Perspective

Author

  • Maria Stanfors
  • Martin Dribe

Summary, in English

Educational homogamy has been increasing for a long time in the Western world but there has been much more research on describing and explaining this trend than actually looking at its consequences. Economic theory predicts that educational heterogamy is related to division of labor in accordance with comparative advantages in household and market production, but there has been few tests of this hypothesis in the light of the changes in educational homogamy. The aim of this paper is to study the importance of educational assortative mating in determining the division of labor in the family. First we make a detailed analysis of Sweden 1990-2000 using time diary data, and then we look at the same issues from a comparative perspective using survey data for a number of countries in Europe. Preliminary results indicate an association between assortative mating and the division of labor, but only for couples with children.

Department/s

  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Document type

Conference - other

Topic

  • Economics
  • Probability Theory and Statistics

Conference name

European Population Conference 2016

Conference date

2016-08-31 - 2016-09-03

Conference place

Mainz, Germany

Status

Unpublished