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In this chapter, we study the long-term development of educational homogamy and the process of spouse selection in the life courses of single men and women in the United States of America. We first describe briefly the specific characteristics of the American educational system and its expansion, then we depict the changes of marriage patterns for successive birth cohorts in the last 50 years. Finally, we study the process of spouse selection in the life course of single American men and women with longitudinal data. For this purpose, we are using retrospectively gathered life history data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).
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Timm, A., Blossfeld, HP., Lankuttis, T. (2003). Who Marries whom in The United States?. In: Blossfeld, HP., Timm, A. (eds) Who Marries Whom?. European Studies of Population, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1065-8_9
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