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- In many Latin American cultures, hypergamy is often intertwined with traditional family values and social structures. Marrying ‘up’ can be seen as a way to enhance familial ties and social networks, with a significant emphasis on the social status and reputation of potential partners.
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Jul 1, 2024 · Here, we argue that the prevalence of hypergamy should instead be assessed in relation to all marriages. We apply this approach to the case of Latin America, where women have made important gains in schooling relative to men.
Latin America countries (red) have undergone an important expansion of education in parallel with significant advances in women’s education that are associated with the closing and reversal of the gender gap in education.
- Albert Esteve, Christine R. Schwartz, Jan van Bavel, Iñaki Permanyer, Martin Klesment, Joan García-R...
- 10.1111/padr.12012
- 2016
- 2016/12
Jul 10, 2024 · We make our case by using census data to empirically examine assortative mating across birth cohorts in Latin America. Our findings show that when homogamy is excluded from the analysis, our results align with prior work pointing to an “end of hypergamy.”
We apply this approach to the case of Latin America, where women have made important gains in schooling relative to men. Using census microdata spanning 105 birth cohorts in 16 countries, we demonstrate that, rather than declining, hypergamy has increased in most countries over time and remains relatively stable across female educational advantage.
Hypergamy norms have historically structured marriage markets in Latin America (Esteve et al. 2016). Across contexts, the prevalence of educational hypergamy norms has been associated with lower marriage rates among educated women and with higher stress and tensions among couples in which wives are more educated than their husbands ( Frye and ...
Nov 1, 2016 · Similar patterns have emerged in Latin America (Esteve et al., 2016) and the United States (Qian, 2017;Lichter and Qian, 2019). ...
Latin American countries have undergone an important expansion of education in parallel with significant advances in women's education that have con-tributed to closing and reversing the gender gap in education. Despite Latin America's low proportions with college education in comparison to Europe,
