Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability
39 Pages Posted: 26 Oct 2009
Abstract
Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative mating is optimal. Our results, however, suggest that homogamy per se does not increase marital stability but higher education and religiousness.
Keywords: divorce, homogamy, education
JEL Classification: I20, J12
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