婚姻匹配、性别观念与离婚风险OA

Taking"Marriage Heterogeneity Hypothesis"as the premise and focusing on parental and spousal educational matching,this paper empirically examines the impact of marriage matching on divorce risk and its underlying mechanisms by using the data from the China Family Panel Studies(CFPS)from 2010 to 2022.The empirical results demonstrate that both spousal and parental educational matching exert statistically significant effects on divorce risks,with family background matching effects persisting in the divorce risk mechanism.During the initial phase of China's reform and opening-up,medium-education homogeneous marriages(couples both with secondary education)exhibited higher divorce risks.In contrast,the deepening reform period saw significantly lower divorce risks among educationally-homogeneous couples,with tertiary-education homogeneous marriages demonstrating the highest stability.Conversely,parental low-education homogeneous marriages(parents both with minimal schooling)was associated with elevated divorce risks.Marriages characterized by female-hypergamous educational matching(wives more educated than husbands)exhibit significantly higher divorce risks.Similarly,parental marriage with male-hypergamous educational matching(fathers more educated than mothers)are associated with elevated divorce risks.However,as China-style modernization progresses,the disparity in divorce risks between heterogeneous and homogeneous marriages has narrowed.Gender concepts exhibit a significant mediating effect in the relationship between spousal educational matching and divorce risks.To promote marital harmony and stability,policymakers should advocate for open-minded attitudes toward marriage matching and the concept of gender equality,and pay attention to the construction of family education and family traditions.