research asks whether there are gender differences in family trajectories by education. We focus on the trajectories of women … proportion of never-partnered and childless at age 39 is largest among those with low education, regardless of gender. Further …, longitudinal family-formation trajectories are highly stratified by education but remarkably gender-neutral. …

Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on … effect of female education is consistent with the independence hypothesis, women’s labour force participation encourages …

-2005, this paper investigates gender differences in mortality differentials by level of educational achievement and by marital … status. In both periods, the differential by level of education is clearly more pronounced among men, but the difference in … disappear when gender differences in population composition by level of education, nationality, employment status, and housing …

, structural arguments point to increases in the proportion of women with high education, jobs with good pay, commitment to careers … with economic affluence among women and men in diverse positions—at all levels of education, for example. Third … innovative, high-education groups, but that the new ideas later diffuse to other groups. This study tests these arguments by …