Why Who Marries Whom Matters: Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Infant Health in the United States 1969–1994

Abstract Educational assortative mating patterns in the United States have changed since the 1960s, but we know little about the effects of these patterns on children, particularly on infant health. Rising educational homogamy may alter prenatal contexts through parental stress and resources, with i...

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