Volume 22 - Article 24 | Pages 733–770
Trends in educational assortative marriage in China from 1970 to 2000
By Hongyun Han
References
Bian, Y. (2002). Chinese social stratification and social mobility. Annual Review of Sociology 28: 91-116.
Bian, Y. and Logan, J.R. (1996). Market transition and the persistence of power: The changing stratification system in urban China. American Sociological Review 61(5): 739-578.
Blossfeld, H. (2009). Educational assortative marriage in comparative perspective. Annual Review of Sociology 35(1): 513-530.
De Brauw, A. and Rozelle, S. (2008). Reconciling the returns to education in off-farm wage employment in rural China. Review of Development Economics 12(1): 57-71.
Deng, Z. and Treiman, D.J. (1997). The impact of the cultural revolution on trends in educational attainment in the People's Republic of China. The American Journal of Sociology 103(2): 391-428.
Diamant, N.J. (2000). Re-examining the impact of the 1950 marriage law: State improvisation, local initiative and rural family change. The China Quarterly 161: 172-198.
Ermisch, J., Francesconi, M., and Siedler, T. (2006). Intergenerational mobility and marital sorting. The Economic Journal 116(513): 659-679.
Esteve, A. and McCaa, R. (2008). Assortative mating patterns in the developing world. Paper presented at the 2009 IUSSP Seminar on Changing Transitions to Marriage, New Delhi, September 10-12, 2008.
Fan, C. and Huang, Y. (1998). Waves of rural brides: female marriage migration in China. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88(2): 227-251.
Fernandez, R., Guner, N., and Knowles, J. (2005). Love and money: A theoretical and empirical analysis of household sorting and inequality. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(1): 273-344.
Fleisher, B.M., Sabirianova, K., and Wang, X. (2005). Returns to skills and the speed of reforms: Evidence from central and eastern Europe, China, and Russia. Journal of Comparative Economics 33(2): 351-370.
Goodkind, D. and Branch, E. (2006). Marriage squeeze in China: historical legacies, surprising findings. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, March 30-April 1, 2006.
Hannum, E. (1999). Political change and the urban-rural gap in basic education in China, 1949-1990. Comparative Education Review 43(2): 193-211.
Hannum, E., Wang, M., and Adams, J. (2008). Urban-rural disparities in access to primary and secondary education under market reform. In: Whyte, M.K. (ed.). One country, two societies? Rural-urban inequality in contemporary China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hauser, S.M. and Xie, Y. (2005). Temporal and regional variation in earnings inequality: Urban china in transition between 1988 and 1995. Social Science Research 34(1): 44-79.
International Monetary Fund (2000). The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database [electronic resource]. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund.
Kalmijn, M. (1998). Intermarriage and homogamy: Causes, patterns, trends. Annual Review of Sociology 24: 395.
Kalmijn, M. (1991). Status homogamy in the United States. The American Journal of Sociology 97(2): 496-523.
Knight, J. and Song, L. (2003). Increasing wage inequality in China: Extent, elements and evaluation. Economics of Transition 4: 597-619.
Lewis, S.K. and Oppenheimer, V.K. (2000). Educational assortative mating across marriage markets: Non-hispanic whites in the United States. Demography 37(1): 29-40.
Li, B. and Walder, A.G. (2001). Career advancement as party patronage: Sponsored mobility into the Chinese administrative elite, 1949-1996. The American Journal of Sociology 106(5): 1371-1408.
Li, H. (2003). Economic transition and returns to education in China. Economics of Educational Review 22(3): 317-328.
Li, T. and Zhang, J. (1998). Returns to education under collective and household farming in China. Journal of Development Economics 56(2): 307-335.
Liu, Z. (1998). Earnings, education, and economic reforms in urban China. Economic Development and Cultural Change 46(4): 697-725.
Mare, R.D. (1991). Five decades of educational assortative mating. American Sociological Review 56(1): 15-32.
National Bureau of Statistics of China (2000). China Population Census. Beijing: National Bureau of Statistics of China.
Nee, V. (1989). A theory of market transition: From redistribution to markets in state socialism. American Sociological Review 54(5): 663-681.
Nee, V. (1991). Social inequalities in reforming state socialism: Between redistribution and markets in china. American Sociological Review 56(3): 267-282.
Nee, V. and Matthews, R. (1996). Market transition and societal transformation in reforming state socialism. Annual Review of Sociology 22: 401-435.
Pochagina, O. (2004). Chinese youth: Attitude toward family and marriage. Far Eastern Affairs 32(1): 133-149.
Qian, Y. (2000). The process of China's market transition (1978-1998): The evolutionary, historical, and comparative perspectives. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 156(1): 151.
Qian, Z. (1998). Changes in assortative mating: The impact of age and education, 1970-1990. Demography 35(3): 279-292.
Qian, Z. and Preston, S.H. (1993). Changes in American marriage, 1972 to 1987: Availability and forces of attraction by age and education. American Sociological Review 58(4): 482-495.
Raymo, J.M. and Xie, Y. (2000). Temporal and regional variation in the strength of educational homogamy. American Sociological Review 65(6): 773-781.
Schwartz, C.R. and Mare, R.D. (2003). The effects of marriage, marital dissolution, and educational upgrading on educational assortative mating. Los Angeles: California Center of Population Research (unpublished manuscript).
Schwartz, C.R. and Mare, R.D. (2005). Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003. Demography 42(4): 621-646.
Shu, X. (2004). Education and gender egalitarianism: The case of China. Sociology of Education 77(4): 311-336.
Shu, X. and Bian, Y. (2003). Market transition and gender gap in earnings in urban China. Social Forces 81(4): 1107-1145.
Smits, J. (2003). Social closure among the higher educated: Trends in educational homogamy in 55 countries. Social Science Research 32(2): 251-277.
Smits, J. and Park, H. (2009). Five decades of educational assortative mating in ten East Asian societies. Social Forces 88(1): 227-255.
Smits, J., Ultee, W., and Lammers, J. (1998). Educational homogamy in 65 countries: An explanation of differences in openness using country-level explanatory variables. American Sociological Review 63(2): 264-285.
Smits, J., Ultee, W., and Lammers, J. (2000). Reply to Raymo and Xie: More or less educational homogamy? A test of different versions of modernization theory using cross-temporal evidence for 60 countries. American Sociological Review 65(5): 781-788.
Song, L. (2009). The effect of the cultural revolution on educational homogamy in urban China. Social Forces 88(1): 257.
State Fertility Planning Commission of China (2001). Chinese Demographic Reproductive Health Survey. Beijing: State Fertility Planning Commission of China.
Walder, A.G. (2002). Markets and income inequality in rural china: Political advantage in an expanding economy. American Sociological Review 67(2): 231-253.
Walder, A.G. (1996). Markets and inequality in transitional economies: Toward testable theories. The American Journal of Sociology 101(4): 1060.
Wang, F. (2005). Organizing through division and exclusion: China’s hukou system. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Wei, X., Tsang, M.C., Xu, W., and Chen, L. (1999). Education and earnings in rural China. Education Economics 7(2): 167-187.
Wu, X. and Treiman, D.J. (2004). The household registration system and social stratification in China: 1955-1996. Demography 41(2): 363-384.
Xia, Y. and Zhou, Z. (2003). The transition of courtship, mate selection and marriage in China. In: Hamon, R. and Ingoldsby, B. (eds.). Mate Selection Across Cultures. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.: 231-246.
Xie, Y. and Hannum, E. (1996). Regional variation in earnings inequality in reform-era urban China. The American Journal of Sociology 101(4): 950-992.
Xu, X., Ji, J., and Tung, Y. (2000). Social and political assortative mating in urban China. Journal of Family Issues 21(1): 47-77.
Xu, X. and Whyte, M. (1990). Love matches and arranged marriages: A Chinese replication. Journal of Marriage and the Family 52(3): 709-722.
Yang, D.T. (1997). Education and off-farm work. Economic Development and Cultural Change 45(3): 613-632.
Zhang, J., Liu, P., and Yung, L. (2007). The Cultural Revolution and returns to schooling in China: Estimates based on twins. Journal of Development Economics 84(2): 631-639.
Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Park, A., and Song, X. (2005). Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001. Journal of Comparative Economics 33(4): 730.
Zhao, W. and Zhou, X. (2007). Returns to education in China’s transitional economy: Reassessment and reconceptualization. In: Hannum, E. and Park, A. (eds.). Education and Reform in China. Oxford: Routledge.
Zhao, Y. (1999). Labor migration and earnings differences: The case of rural China. Economic Development and Cultural Change 47(4): 767-782.
Zhao, Y. (1997). Labor migration and returns to rural education in China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79(4): 1278-1287.
Zhou, X. (2000). Economic transformation and income inequality in urban China: Evidence from panel data. The American Journal of Sociology 105(4): 1135-1174.
Zhou, X., Moen, P., and Tuma, N.B. (1998). Educational stratification in urban China: 1949-1994. Sociology of Education 71(3): 199-222.