Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v26i3.1581
Who Get Divorced More Often? Education and Marital (In)Stability In Croatia
Petra Međimurec
orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-2457
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Ekonomski fakultet u Zagrebu
Ivan Čipin
orcid.org/0000-0002-5624-0359
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Ekonomski fakultet u Zagrebu
Abstract
The paper analyzes the connection between education and divorce in Croatia. Who gets divorced more often, people with more or less education? Are there gender differences? Is the educational gradient in the risk of divorce changing with time (across marriage cohorts)? The paper searches for answers by using individual (micro) data from the vital statistics of marriag-es and divorces. The data were linked to allow observation of all the couples who married for the first time between 1989 until 2014 from the wedding until the divorce or until the termina-tion in observation. The results obtained by using the event history methods show that, on aver-age, across all marriage cohorts, education influences the risk of divorce for men negatively, and for women positively. Regarding changes in time, for both genders there are indications that those with low(est) education levels get divorced most frequently. This can lead them into an even more unfavourable position, since the divorce most frequently has negative conse-quences, so the future research should examine what implications our empirical results have on social inequality in Croatia.
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231727
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Publication date:
20.12.2019.
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