Qian, Y., & Qian, Z. (2014). The gender divide in urban China: Singlehood and assortative mating by age and education. Demographic Research, 31, 1337-1364.
Hypothesis 1
因为写文章需要,下面学习如何提hypothesis
In china, increasing educational opportunities have equalized the playing field in college education between men and women. Meanwhile, education is now strongly tied to occupational prestige; earnings returns to education—college education in particular—have increased rapidly. Since education plays an increasing important role in determining an individual’s socioeconomic position, it is not a surprise that educational homogamy in urban China has increased between the 1970s and the late 1990s, as seen in the United States.
尽管我没有看到这部分内容对假设的直接作用,但是我知道这部分背景信息是对整个社会变迁,社会背景变化的很重要的描述,这样的描述会使我们看到社会变迁对后面所提到的educational and age mating 变化的影响。
Increasing educational opportunity …… equalized the playing field …
Meanwhile …..
Since education plays an increasing important role in determining ….it is not surprising that …educational homogamy has increased …, as seen in … increase用的有点多啊
Nevertheless, traditional gender roles are stronger today than in the recent past, which is predicted to produce different patterns of marriage formation and assortative mating from those in the United States and other developed countries. Based on the discussion above, we formulate the following hypothesis regarding marriage formation and assortative mating in urban China:
在这一段还提到另外一个非常重要的背景因素,那就是traditional gender role … is stronger today than .., which is predicted to produce …. 从句作状语,这个句子貌似有点问题,就是变成主语从句大概是这样 predict it to produce…
Based on the discussion above, 这是引出hypothesis一个词组, we formulate the following hypothesis regarding marriage formation ….
(1) College-educated women have lower marriage rates than their male counterparts, especially among those who marry at later ages.
学习marry at later ages 用法
(2) The patterns of educational and age assortative marriage are gender asymmetrical:
学习gender asymmetrical, 可以作为交互作用的一种更为形象的描述方法
2.a) Among marriage in which two spouses have different levels of educational attainment, husband tend to have more education than wives;
2.b) Among marriages in which to spouses differ in age, wives tend to be younger than husbands.
(3) The pattern of educational assortative mating varies by age at first marriage: individuals marrying at later ages are less likely to form educational homogamy. This pattern is expected to be more evident among men than among women.
这是一个交互作用,学习the pattern of educational assortative mating varies by age at first marriage
….to be more evident among , 对男性更是如此。