Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Department of Sociology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Demography. 2023 Feb 1;60(1):123-145. doi: 10.1215/00703370-10411058.
In the past century, China has undergone rapid and dramatic social and economic changes. This article describes trends in educational assortative marriages of cohorts born in 1906-1995 in China. We measure educational attainment relatively as an individual's percentile position in the education distribution of a 10-year birth cohort and study trends using comparable, easy-to-interpret couple rank-rank correlations. We analyze microdata samples from the 1982, 1990, 2000, and 2010 China censuses and the 2015 1% intercensus survey and nationally representative surveys between 1996 and 2018. We find a large and steady increase in educational assortative marriage over the past century, except among those born in 1946-1965, whose schooling and marriage were impacted by the Cultural Revolution. Our study highlights the critical roles of social, political, and economic contexts in shaping trends in educational assortative marriage.
在过去的一个世纪里，中国经历了快速而剧烈的社会和经济变革。本文描述了中国 1906-1995 年出生的各队列成员教育匹配婚姻的趋势。我们将教育程度相对衡量为个人在 10 年出生队列的教育分布中的百分位位置，并使用可比的、易于解释的夫妻等级-等级相关系数来研究趋势。我们分析了来自 1982 年、1990 年、2000 年和 2010 年中国人口普查以及 2015 年 1%人口普查的微观数据样本，以及 1996 年至 2018 年期间的全国代表性调查。我们发现，在过去的一个世纪里，教育匹配婚姻有了很大且稳定的增长，除了 1946-1965 年出生的人之外，他们的教育和婚姻受到了文化大革命的影响。我们的研究强调了社会、政治和经济背景在塑造教育匹配婚姻趋势方面的关键作用。
