tailieunhanh - Trends and Educational Differentials in Marriage Formation Among Taiwanese Women

Using data pooled from 15 waves of the Women's Marriage, Fertility, and Employment Survey, this paper documents trends and educational differentials in marriage formation among Taiwanese women born between 1910 and 1979. Estimates of hazard rates and cumulative probabilities of first marriage show that women born | WORKING P A P E R Trends and Educational Differentials in Marriage Formation Among Taiwanese Women YI-CHUAN CHANG AND JUI-CHUNG ALLEN LI WR-891 November 201 1 This paper series made possible by the NIA funded RAND Center for the Study of Aging P30AG01 2815 and the NICHD funded RAND Population Research Center R24HD050906 . This product is part of the RAND Labor and Population working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers latest findings and to solicit informal peer review. They have been approved for circulation by RAND Labor and Population but have not been formally edited or peer reviewed. Unless otherwise indicated working papers can be quoted and cited without permission of the author provided the source is clearly referred to as a working paper. RAND s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. RAND is a registered trademark. RAND LABOR AND POPULATION TRENDS AND EDUCATIONAL DIFFERENTIALS IN MARRIAGE FORMATION AMONG TAIWANESE WOMEN November 1 2011 Yi-Chuan Chang Department of Sociology National Taiwan University and Jui-Chung Allen Li Institute of European and American Studies and Institute of Sociology Academia Sinica and Population Research Center RAND Corporation Authors are listed in alphabetical order to indicate equal contributions. Research supports come from National Institutes of Health via seed grants as part of 5P30AG024968 and R24HD50906 and National Science Council NSC99-2410-H-001-081 . An earlier version was presented at the 2010 meeting of the Population Association of America. We thank Hyunjoon Park Kuo-Hsien Su Berna Torr Yu Xie and Chin-Chun Yi for helpful comments and suggestions. Data used in this study were collected by the Directorate-General of Budget Accounting and Statistics Executive Yuan . and were disseminated by the Center for Survey Research Academia Sinica. Direct correspondence to Jui-Chung Allen Li Email jli@. Abstract Using data .