Opportunities to Meet: Occupational Education and Marriage Formation in Young Adulthood.
Explanations for the positive association between education and marriage in the United States emphasize the economic and cultural attractiveness of having a college degree in the marriage market. However, educational attainment may also shape the opportunities that men and women have to meet other c...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 1319 - 1345 |
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