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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Sociol Rev. 2014 Aug 1;79(4):605–629. doi: 10.1177/0003122414539682

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Trends in the Association Between Wives’ Education and Marital Dissolution

Notes: Model includes linear and quadratic terms for husband’s age at marriage and wife’s age at marriage; dummy variables for wife’s race (1=African American, 0=other), marriage number (1=remarriage, 0=first marriage), data source (1=NSFG 1973–1995, 2=PSID, 3=NSFG 2002 and 2006–10), husband’s and wife’s education category (<12, 13–15, ≥16), and spouses’ relative education (1=hypogamous, 2=homogamous, 3=hypergamous); a linear term for the absolute difference between spouses’ education categories; and husband’s and wife’s education category x dummy variables for marriage cohort.

Sources: Pooled data from the 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, 2002, and 2006–10 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and the 1968–2009 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).