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Wife-older Marriage and Economic Factors : Empirical Analysis  

Sung, Nak-Il (서울시립대학교 경제학부)
Jo, Dong-Hyuk (서울시립대학교 대학원 경제학과)
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Korea journal of population studies / v.33, no.3, 2010 , pp. 1-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examines difference in age at marriage between spouses and more importantly, investigates into the economic and social factors affecting the ratio or probability of wife-older marriages. Empirical analysis is carried out by applying both logit model and multinomial logit model to an independently pooled cross-section over 2004-2007. The data was collected mainly from the micro data service system of the Statistics Korea. Empirical results indicate that a wife-older marriage was more likely as a wife was more educated and was a larger income earner than a husband. On the other hand, a wife's educational and income level themselves had few systematic relationships with the probability of a wife-older marriage. The probability of a wife-older marriage tended to decrease(increase) when a husband's(a wife's) marriage was the second' The study calculates the average marginal effect of difference in the income level between spouses on the probability of a wife-older marriage, which is -0.007. That is, the probability of a wife-older marriage increases by 0.7% as a husband's income level is 1 million Korean Won less than a wife's. This results presents empirical evidence against widely distributed misconception on wife-older marriage in the mass media.
Keywords
Marriage; Marriage age; Wife-older marriage; Logit model; Multinomial logit model;
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