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Educational Assortative Mating in Japan

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In this chapter, we consider two broad empirical questions—one about the process of assortative mating and the other about its consequences.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We thank Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Sayaka Sakoda for sharing their survey data.

  2. 2.

    The model we used here is similar to Model 2 described in the Appendix.

  3. 3.

    It could also be the case that wives’ job stability may also matter for childbearing decisions (Bueno and García-Román 2021). In contexts characterized by greater economic (employment) uncertainty, we may see a smaller difference in fertility levels between educationally hypogamous couples and other couples.

  4. 4.

    Similar ideas have been discussed in other studies (Lundberg et al. 2016; Reeves 2017).

  5. 5.

    But see Wang and Raymo (n.d.), which suggests that the negative association between mother’s work and children’s cognitive ability depends on mother's education. In their analysis, the negative employment effect on child wellbeing is limited to low-educated mothers.

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