Changing partner choice and marriage propensities by education in post-industrial Taiwan, 2000-2010

Cheng, Yen‐hsin Alice

doi:10.4054/demres.2014.31.33

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“…Today, women with higher levels of education continue to marry later, but are no longer more likely than their less‐educated counterparts to remain unmarried. This weakening or reversal of the negative educational gradient in marriage has been documented in Australia and New Zealand (Heard, ), several European countries (Goldscheider, Turcotte, & Kopp, ), the United States (Goldstein & Kenney, ; Schoen & Cheng, ; Torr, ), and East Asia (Cheng, ; Park & Lee, ; Zhou, Wu, & He, ).…”

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Revisiting the Educational Gradient in Marriage in Japan

Fukuda

Raymo

Yoda

2019

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective This article documents trends in the educational gradient in marriage in Japan and evaluates the mechanisms underlying those trends by drawing on two broad theoretical frameworks emphasizing gender revolution and labor market bifurcation. Background Efforts to explain reversal of the negative educational gradient in women's marriage have been limited in both theoretical scope and geographical focus. Distinctive features of the Japanese context allow us to shed new light on multiple sources of change in marriage behavior. Method The authors apply the harmonic‐mean two‐sex marriage model to person‐period data for men and women to investigate the changes in marriage rates by educational attainment and by specific educational pairings during the period 1988 to 2015. Our focus on changes in patterns of educational pairing facilitates the evaluation of predictions from the two broad theoretical frameworks. Results The analyses showed that the negative educational gradient in women's first marriage disappeared by 2005 and that a positive gradient emerged after 2009. This change was brought about by a combination of decline in the marriage rates of less‐educated women and an increase in the marriage rates of highly educated women. The former was the result of declining educational homogamy, whereas the latter was due to a rise in female educational hypogamy. In contrast, the educational gradient for men remained positive throughout the time period examined. Conclusion Our study provides the first evidence of a positive educational gradient in women's marriage in Japan and provides empirical evidence consistent with expectations derived from two different, but interrelated and potentially reinforcing, theoretical frameworks.

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Revisiting the Educational Gradient in Marriage in Japan

Fukuda

Raymo

Yoda

2019

J of Marriage and Family

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“…In addition to how parents may shape children's paces of entering marriage, previous research on marriage formation in Taiwan also indicates a strong tendency of assortative mating (Tsay 1996). Although the traditional gender norm favoring the husband having higher status than the wife leads a sizable proportion of Taiwanese women to marry men who are older and more educated than themselves, the percentages of relationships that feature educational and age homogamy have increased steadily in Taiwan (Cheng 2014;Chu and Yu 2010). Furthermore, previous research indicates a strong tendency for people in Taiwan to marry those from a similar family socioeconomic background (Chu and Yu 2010).…”

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Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan

Lin¹,

Yu²,

Su³

2019

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BACKGROUND Few studies of same-sex relationships are able to capture the dynamics of these relationships from formation to dissolution, and even fewer provide evidence on these dynamics in a non-Western context. OBJECTIVE Using retrospective relationship history data collected from a nationally representative sample of young adults, this study compares the processes of forming and terminating relationships between same-and different-sex couples in Taiwan, an Asian society featuring both strong parental influences on children's mate selection and an ongoing legislative effort to legalize same-sex marriage. RESULTS Results from event history models show that factors associated with relationship formation and dissolution are largely similar for same-and different-sex unions and that same-sex relationships do not have higher dissolution rates. Nevertheless, premarital coresidence with parents, which is likely to amplify parental influences on children's mate selection, deters the entry into and accelerates the dissolution of same-sex relationships more than it does different-sex relationships. Moreover, same-sex relationships are more heterogamous in family economic background, but more homogamous in age and education level, than different-sex ones.

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“…Finally, along with results from recent research, this study would likely point to a more optimistic demographic future than commonly expected. Given that number of tertiary‐educated women in Taiwan has been increasing across cohorts, and that these women have become more likely to marry than their less‐educated counterparts (Cheng, ), a potential reversal of the low marriage and fertility rates in Taiwan will likely take place. The current ultralow fertility rate could be a consequence of the widespread incoherence between the new gender structure (women's massive entry into the public sphere) and a relatively stalled revolution in traditional family attitudes (men's still low engagement in the private sphere).…”

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No More Babies without Help for Whom? Education, Division of Labor, and Fertility Intentions

Cheng

Hsu

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective This study examines whether the impact of husbands' involvement in childcare and housework on wives' fertility intentions varies by wives' education in Taiwan. Background Recent research has pointed to the positive influence of a more egalitarian division of labor on wives' fertility intentions, yet existing literature often fails to examine educational variations in such linkages. Method This paper analyzed reports of time spent on domestic work (i.e., housework and childcare) for both spouses in the 2016 Women's Marriage, Fertility, and Employment Survey. The analytical sample included all married respondents with at least one child. Regression models and counterfactual analyses were adopted. Results The findings showed that husbands of tertiary‐educated wives shared more housework and childcare. Furthermore, wives' fertility intentions beyond parity‐one increased with more input from husbands in helping with childcare, but not housework sharing. This positive childcare‐sharing effect was particularly salient among tertiary‐educated wives—who tended to be more economically empowered and to have higher expectations for gender equality at home. Finally, counterfactual analyses using a propensity score matching method indicated that non‐tertiary‐educated wives would not increase their fertility intentions even if they had received more help from husbands. Conclusion Such educational variations have been little explored in past theory and research. Pro‐natalist policies aiming to boost fertility will likely attain optimal effectiveness if different combinations of parental‐leave and financial aid packages are offered to women with varying education. This study also contributes to the limited research on how division of labor affects fertility intentions in East Asia.

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Changing partner choice and marriage propensities by education in post-industrial Taiwan, 2000-2010

Cited by 29 publications

References 46 publications

Revisiting the Educational Gradient in Marriage in Japan

Revisiting the Educational Gradient in Marriage in Japan

Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan

No More Babies without Help for Whom? Education, Division of Labor, and Fertility Intentions

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