Transitions Within and From First Unions: Educational Effects in an Extended Winnowing Model

Saarela, Jan; Finnäs, Fjalar

doi:10.1080/01494929.2013.851053

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“…Moreover, they found that family formation within marriage is more common among the highly educated, whereas unmarried family formation is more common among the less educated (Saarela and Finnäs 2014). These results strongly suggest that an interaction between homogamy and the level of education affects the family formation behaviour of couples, and thus highlight the importance of taking the couple's perspective when studying fertility.…”

Section: Non-marital Family Formation and The Role Of Educational Assmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…It appears that unmarried cohabiting couples are more likely than married couples to be in a heterogamous union, as unmarried cohabitation involves less commitment than marriage. In other words, partners who share more cultural traits will be more likely than partners who share fewer cultural traits to make the transition to marriage (Blackwell and Lichter 2000;Saarela and Finnäs 2014).…”

Section: Non-marital Family Formation and The Role Of Educational Assmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In their study of several family transitions in Finland, Saarela and Finnäs (2014) found that compared to the homogamous couples, heterogamous couples face a higher risk of union dissolution, a higher risk of living in an unmarried union, and a lower risk of becoming parents. Moreover, they found that family formation within marriage is more common among the highly educated, whereas unmarried family formation is more common among the less educated (Saarela and Finnäs 2014).…”

Section: Non-marital Family Formation and The Role Of Educational Assmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pathways to marital and non-marital first birth: the role of his and her education

Trimarchi¹,

Bavel²

2018

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A key demographic trend of the past decades has been the increasing share of first births occurring outside marriage. In analysing the factors associated with this trend, scholars have tended to focus on the characteristics of only one of the parents, typically the mother. This study examines the pathways to parenthood from a couple's perspective, focusing on the role of educational pairings; i.e. the combination of his and her education. Using a multistate approach, we examine the connection between educational pairings and the occurrence of the first birth inside or outside marriage for 12 European countries. We find that the presence of at least one highly educated partner lowers the likelihood of a non-marital first birth. Strikingly, it does not matter whether it is he or she who has the highest level of education.

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Section: Non-marital Family Formation and The Role Of Educational Assmentioning

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Section: Non-marital Family Formation and The Role Of Educational Assmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Non-marital Family Formation and The Role Of Educational Assmentioning

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Pathways to marital and non-marital first birth: the role of his and her education

Trimarchi¹,

Bavel²

2018

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“…To see whether and how estimates for parental ethno-linguistic affiliation and other determinants of poverty differ in size, we estimate models for single-parent households and two-parent households, respectively, with joint effects of ethno-linguistic background and year, and main effects of control variables. In a statistical sense, that is identical to adding interaction effects of ethno-linguistic background and year to the model that includes main effects (Saarela and Finnäs 2014). Since each household may be repeatedly observed over the calendar years, the logistic regression models are specified with generalized estimating equations (Wang 2014).…”

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“…Joint labour market status refers to the contemporary labour market status held by each parent, and joint education to the contemporary highest educational level held by each parent. The approach with joint effects is equal to adding interaction effects of man's and woman's labour market status, or education, to the model that includes main effects (Saarela and Finnäs 2014). Two-parent households are additionally controlled for marital status and the woman's share of the couple's income.…”

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Ethno-Linguistic Affiliation and Income Poverty in Native Households with Children: Finland 1987–2011

Härtull

Saarela

2018

Soc Indic Res

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The child poverty rate has increased noticeably in Finland since the mid-1990s, and there are numerous studies in this area. However, little is known about child poverty in the two native and equal population groups, Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers. Using detailed register-based data that cover the period 1987-2011, we analyze how child poverty depends on parental ethno-linguistic affiliation, and whether there is variation in income poverty across these households over time. The poverty measure is relative and based on equalized taxable household income of households with children. Odds of poverty are estimated with logistic regression models using generalized estimating equations to account for repeated observations at the household level. The analyses are restricted to areas with both Swedish-and Finnish-speaking settlement. Single-parent and two-parent households are analyzed separately. Poverty rates increased in all major types of households during the study period, but variation by ethno-linguistic affiliation was fairly modest. Swedish-speaking single-parent and two-parent households experienced a smaller increase in the poverty rate than Finnish-speaking ones, while patterns observed for exogamous households were less clear. The contribution of control variables on the ethno-linguistic poverty differences was modest. Considering that the ethno-linguistic groups studied are indigenous and equal, the small differences in poverty rates between Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers are evidence of a democratic and well-functioning welfare state, although the increasing overall poverty rates over time require future scrutiny by both policy makers and researchers.

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Influence of Heterogamy by Religion on Risk of Marital Dissolution: A Cohort Study of 20,000 Couples

2016

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Heterogamous marriages, in which partners have dissimilar attributes (e.g. by socio-economic status or ethnicity), are often at elevated risk of dissolution. We investigated the influences of heterogamy by religion and area of residence on risk of marital dissolution in Northern Ireland, a country with a history of conflict and residential segregation along Catholic–Protestant lines. We expected Catholic–Protestant marriages to have elevated risks of dissolution, especially in areas with high concentrations of a single religious group where opposition to intermarriage was expected to be high. We estimated risks of marital dissolution from 2001 to 2011 for 19,791 couples drawn from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (a record linkage study), adjusting for a range of compositional and contextual factors using multilevel logistic regression. Dissolution risk decreased with increasing age and higher socio-economic status. Catholic–Protestant marriages were rare (5.9 % of the sample) and were at increased risk of dissolution relative to homogamous marriages. We found no association between local population composition and dissolution risk for Catholic–Protestant couples, indicating that partner and household characteristics may have a greater influence on dissolution risk than the wider community.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10680-016-9398-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Transitions Within and From First Unions: Educational Effects in an Extended Winnowing Model

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Pathways to marital and non-marital first birth: the role of his and her education

Pathways to marital and non-marital first birth: the role of his and her education

Ethno-Linguistic Affiliation and Income Poverty in Native Households with Children: Finland 1987–2011

Influence of Heterogamy by Religion on Risk of Marital Dissolution: A Cohort Study of 20,000 Couples

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