Changing Relationships between Education and Marriage among Korean Women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Using the data from the 1-percent microdata sample of 2010 Census (N = 107,741), we examine changing relationships between education and first marriage across Korean women of three birth cohorts born in 1951-60, 1961-70, and 1971-80. We apply discrete-time hazard models to the person-year data, allowing the effect of women’s educational attainment on the risk of marriage to fully vary across cohorts and over duration. Women of younger cohorts have increasingly delayed and forgone marriage regardless of educational levels. However, the trend toward later and less marriage has been particularly significant among the lowest educated. In the result, for the youngest cohort, the percentage of women who remained single by the age 39 is highest at both ends of educational attainment. This contrasts the pattern among the oldest cohort where there was a linearly negative relationship between education and marriage, consistent with the findings in other East Asian countries.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• INTRODUCTION
• KOREAN CONTEXTS
• DATA AND METHODS
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES