Title: Marriage and divorce: patterns by gender, race, and educational attainment : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Headings: Marriage and divorce: patterns by gender, race, and educational attainment
Marriage and divorce: patterns by gender, race, and educational attainment
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Table 1. Sample characteristics of survey respondents
Table 2. Percentage of the sample by gender, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment
Marriage outcomes through age 46
Marital history by age
Duration of marriages by age and education
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Content: Approximately 42 percent of marriages that took place between ages 15 and 46 ended in divorce by age 46. In the NLSY79, women in this cohort were more likely to marry and to remarry than were men. In addition, marriages of women were more likely to end in divorce, as were marriages that began at younger ages. On average, women married at younger ages than men. Marriage patterns differed markedly by age at marriage and by educational attainment. Marriage patterns differed markedly by age at marriage and by educational attainment. College-educated men and women married at older ages compared with their counterparts who had fewer years of schooling. About equal proportions of men and women who received a college degree married by age 46, 88 percent for men and 90 percent for women. Men and women who did not complete high school were less likely to marry than were men and women with more education. Men who earned a bachelor’s degree were more likely to marry than men with less education.