3531 - Variation in Sexual and Romantic Relationships by Socioeconomic Status

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Marital delay, relationship dissolution and churning, and high divorce rates have extended the amount of time adults spend outside of formal marriage. Individuals can select from a veritable smorgasbord of romantic options, including casual, short-term sexual relationships, dating as an end toward finding a long-term partner, cohabitation or living-apart-together, and/or marriage. But intimate relationships can vary in important ways by socioeconomic status, shaped by the financial resources, environments, cultural norms, etc., within which partnering occurs. This session welcomes papers that examine variation and consistencies in sexual and romantic relationships across socioeconomic status.

Sub Unit

• Family Section / Variation in Sexual and Romantic Relationships by Socioeconomic Status

Session Organizer

• Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Presider

• Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Individual Presentations

• Converging Preferences: Relative Education and Relationship Quality. - Maria Ines Martinez Echague

• Marriage squeeze among highly educated: Living arrangements of young highly educated women in Europe - Dana Hamplova, Institute of Sociology

• On the link between non-standard employment and partnership dissolution in Germany and Australia - Inga Lass, University of Melbourne

• Status Hypergamy and Marital Well-being in China - Jingjing Chen, University of California, Davis

Discussant

• Claudia Geist, University of Utah