BACKGROUNDVery little is known about recent marriage differentials by education in times of marriage decline and economic restructuring in East Asia. OBJECTIVEThis study aims to contribute to family research in Asia by investigating educational variations in retreat from marriage and mate selection in Taiwan. METHODSThis study applied Schoen's (1988) harmonic-mean two-sex marriage propensity approach to nationwide marriage registration data to examine the changing marriage patterns by education in Taiwan between 2000 and 2010. RESULTSThe findings show that the drop in marriage rates is particularly drastic among the least educated.Marriage has become more prevalent and affordable for better-educated Taiwanese.Additionally, the proportion of educationally homogamous marriages has increased, and the share of female-hypergamous marriages of all heterogamy also increased from 2000 to 2010.Decomposition analyses show that these changes are mainly due to decreased marriage propensities, not to the availability of eligible partners.Educational and sex variations in marriage intentions, gender-role and marriage values, and the changing economic structure and financial well-being of young adults were investigated as potential causes.
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