Affiliation:
1. University of Belgrade Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
This paper examines marital market preferences and opportunities, given the
gender asymmetry of education and the limited supply of equally educated
partners (especially in the higher education segment), and explores
selection patterns resulting from new composite changes for at-risk
populations entering into a marriage. Specifically, we are researching mixed
marriages by education and changes in the patterns of that selection in the
former Yugoslav republics. The assessment of the impact of changes in
educational characteristics by gender on patterns of marital pairing and the
reduction of the level of educational hypergamy was performed by analysing
the movement of F-index and H-index values from 1970 to 2020 and their
correlation coefficient. The results showed that educational hypergamy is
declining in all countries and that the decline in hypergamy is positively
associated with the predominance of women among highly educated individuals.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
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