Type | Working Paper |
Title | Educational assortative mating in Armenia |
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2009 |
Abstract | The paper examines the pattern of educational assortative mating in Armenia. It uses data on married women born between 1921 and 1970 from the 2001 Armenian Population Census. About 60 percent of women marry men with similar educational attainment, and this pattern of assortative mating has remained relatively stable over the decades. Multivariate estimates show that female university graduates born in 1960s are more likely to marry down. The estimates also show that women are likely to marry down if they are older than their mates. |