Who Marries Whom?

Blossfeld, Hans-Peter; Timm, Andreas

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1065-8

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“…For women, it is higher for tertiary-educated (5.3%) than for other educational groups (4.5% for low-educated and 3.4% for medium-educated women). These distributions are very much in line with earlier studies (Blossfeld and Timm 2003). …”

Section: Explanatory Variablessupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Accordingly, if men's and women's market productivity begins to converge, the raison d'être of union formation weakens. There is ample empirical support for this prediction (Brines and Joyner 1999;Blossfeld and Timm 2003). The choice of singlehood, it is argued, is a by-product of women's greater earning capacity and, consequently, of less reliance on a male partner's earnings (Oppenheimer 1997).…”

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Never partnered: A multilevel analysis of lifelong singlehood

Bellani¹,

Esping‐Andersen²,

Nedoluzhko³

2017

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Section: Explanatory Variablessupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Never partnered: A multilevel analysis of lifelong singlehood

Bellani¹,

Esping‐Andersen²,

Nedoluzhko³

2017

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“…An individual's socio-structural attributes play a major role in the mating process. Resources like educational level and activity status determine the likelihood of finding a partner and marrying (Blossfeld and Timm 2003). Personality factors also affect the chances of union formation.…”

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“…Childless men and women who do not have a partner at ages 35 and older are likely to have special social or personal characteristics, which we account for in our models. Some of these individuals might be childless because they have not found an appropriate partner (Blossfeld and Timm 2003;Asendorpf and Wilpers 1998), while others might be prone to cultivating a lifestyle as a single person with no children (Poortman and Liefbroer 2010). Yet another subgroup of men and women may have postponed family formation because they were focused on pursuing other life goals during their earlier life course stages, and are now particularly concerned about approaching the end of their reproductive years.…”

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Running out of time? Understanding the consequences of the biological clock for the dynamics of fertility intentions and union formation

Wagner¹,

Huinink²,

Liefbroer³

2019

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BACKGROUND A considerable proportion of childless women in their late thirties or early forties would still like to have children. The number of men and women whose fertility intentions are potentially influenced by the so-called biological clock for childbearing and who remain involuntarily childless is increasing. OBJECTIVE We analyze the short-term dynamics of fertility intentions and partner search among childless, non-partnered men and women aged 35-37. By comparing people in this age group to younger men and women, we investigate whether and how their awareness of the biological clock for childbearing affects their childbearing intentions. METHODS The data stems from the first two waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) survey. We selected male and female respondents aged 25-27 (n = 1,073) and 35-37 (n = 369) in Wave 1. RESULTS Our analyses reveal that fertility intentions are more polarized among men and women aged 35-37 than among their 25-27-year-old counterparts, and are more polarized among women than among men. Finding a partner is shown to positively affect fertility intentions. Our results suggest that people who intensify their fertility intentions are not

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“…V sociologii se odlišné partnerské preference mezi pohlavími nejčastěji vysvětlují teorií sociálních rolí a z nich vycházející teorií racionální volby [Becker 1993]. Sociologické přístupy navíc poukazují na to, že proces volby partnera je ovlivněn řadou sociálních norem [Blossfeld, Timm 2003;Hamplová 2006]. Podle teorie racionální volby si lidé volí partnera způsobem, který maximalizuje jejich užitek.…”

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The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Assortative Mating: Partner Preferences of Young Adults

Šetinová¹,

Chaloupková²

2019

Czech Sociological Review

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This article focuses on the relationship between young adults' cognitive abilities and individual partner preferences. We worked with the Preference NSZ 2017 data set, which contains data on partner preferences and the results of the National Comparative Secondary-School Exams of Czech high school graduates, and our analyses, using logistic regression, confirmed a tendency towards homophily on the level of cognitive abilities and university education. Young people with above-average results place more importance on agreement in political opinions, but do not regard the partner's homemaking abilities or financial situation as too important. The results further show that partner preferences differ according to the education capital of the background family and according to preferred partnership arrangement. We also find significant differences in the partner preferences of men and women that reflect ideas about traditional gender roles. Women favour characteristics that relate to status, and men assign more importance to physical looks.

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Who Marries Whom?

Cited by 220 publications

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Never partnered: A multilevel analysis of lifelong singlehood

Never partnered: A multilevel analysis of lifelong singlehood

Running out of time? Understanding the consequences of the biological clock for the dynamics of fertility intentions and union formation

The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Assortative Mating: Partner Preferences of Young Adults

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