TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kraft, Kornelius
AU  - Neimann, Stefanie
        TI  - Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability
        PY  - 2009/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4491
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4491
        AB  - Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative mating is optimal. Our results, however, suggest that homogamy per se does not increase marital stability but higher education and religiousness.
        KW  - divorce
KW  - homogamy
KW  - education
        ER  -