Intramarital Status Differences across Africa's Educational Expansion.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This paper documents how intra-marital differences in educational status vary across Africa's heterogeneous educational expansion, which has encompassed an enormous breadth of educational opportunities over the past 50 years.

Background

Educational expansion influences intra-marital status differences both by altering the educational composition of men and women and by reconfiguring the social conventions associated with a given educational context. Status differentials between marital partners can influence spousal wellbeing and, in the aggregate, determine the extent to which marriage provides a pathway to upward social mobility.

Method

Using Demographic and Health Survey data representing 32 sub-Saharan African countries and 5 decades of birth cohorts, th

SUBMITTER: Lopus S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8153517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature