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Education, Marriage Cohorts, and Different Pathways to Marriage in East Asian Societies

Shichao Du (The State University of New York at Albany, USA)

Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions

ISBN: 978-1-80455-395-4, eISBN: 978-1-80455-394-7

Publication date: 15 May 2023

Abstract

The literature on marriage formation neglects different pathways to marriage. This study focuses on arranged marriage, introduced marriage, and self-initiated marriage as three main marriage pathways in East Asia and examines how people’s marriage pathway choices are associated with education and change over time in mainland China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Using data from the East Asian Social Survey, this study finds that education is associated with fewer arranged marriages and more self-initiated marriages and that more recent marriage cohorts also witness a decline in arranged marriages and an increase in self-initiated marriages. However, how introduced marriage is associated with education and change over time varies in four East Asian societies. The findings support the “developmentalism-marriage” framework that developmental idealism leads to modern marital practices.

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The research is supported by the Chinese National Social Science Funding on the project “Understanding Social Values and Behavioral Patterns of the New Generation from An Intergenerational Perspective [19ZDA145].”

Citation

Du, S. (2023), "Education, Marriage Cohorts, and Different Pathways to Marriage in East Asian Societies", Hernández, A.J.C. and Blair, S.L. (Ed.) Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Vol. 22), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 129-149. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1530-353520230000022007

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