Christine Schwartz
Associate Director for Administration, CDE
4458 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-5791
cschwart@ssc.wisc.edu
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Office Hours: M 9:15-10:15 W 2-3 (Spr'13)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Schwartz, Christine R. Forthcoming. "Trends and Variation in Assortative Mating: Causes and Consequences." Annual Review of Sociology.
Schwartz, Christine R. and Robert D. Mare. 2012. "The Proximate Determinants of Educational Homogamy: The Effects of First Marriage, Marital Dissolution, Remarriage, and Educational Upgrading." Demography 49:629-650.
Schwartz, Christine R. 2010. "Earnings Inequality and the Changing Association Between Spouses' Earnings." American Journal of Sociology 115:1524-57.
Schwartz, Christine R. 2010. "Pathways to Educational Homogamy in Marital and Cohabiting Unions." Demography 47:735-753.
Schwartz, Christine R. and Nikki L. Graf. 2009. "Assortative Matching Among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in the United States, 1990-2000." Demographic Research 21:843-878.
Musick, Kelly, Judith A. Seltzer, and Christine R. Schwartz. 2008. "Neighborhood Norms and Substance Use Among Teens." Social Science Research 37:138-155.
Mare, Robert D., and Christine R. Schwartz. 2006. "Educational Assortative Mating and the Family Background of the Next Generation: A Formal Analysis." Riron to Hoho (Sociological Theory and Methods) 21:253-277.
Schwartz, Christine R. and Robert D. Mare. 2005. "Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage From 1940 to 2003." Demography 42:621-646.
Areas of Interest:
Aging and the Life Course
Demography and Ecology
Family
Methods and Statistics
Social Stratification
Affiliations:
Sociology
Center for Demography and Ecology
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Institute for Research on Poverty
Research Interest Statement:
Schwartz’s research focuses on the relationship between union formation and dissolution patterns and social inequality. Schwartz’s work documents a marked increase in the association between spouses’ educational attainments in the United States over the past half century. These shifts have the potential to increase socioeconomic inequality if increased matching on education is associated with an increasing tendency for marriages to consist of two high- or two low-earning partners. Indeed, in another paper, Schwartz finds that the association between spouses’ earnings has increased substantially and estimates that these changes account for 25 to 30% of increased earnings inequality among married couples between 1967 and 2003.