Who marries whom? Educational homogamy in Norway

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Johan Heldal
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Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund: Universitetet i Oslo
Johan Heldal: Statistisk sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway)

Demographic Research, 2003, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-30

Abstract: A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited time period. This study is based on a sample of 129 651 individuals from the 1980 Census. From this data bank, a sample of couples is constructed. Patterns of educational homogamy across five ten-year cohorts, born between 1900 and 1949, are compared. The results show a decline in educational homogamy across these cohorts, both in absolute terms and when controlling for the general increase in educational level during the period.

Keywords: cohort analysis; marriage; assortative mating; homogamy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.1

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