Christine Schwartz

Assistant Professor of Sociology
4404 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-5791
cschwart@ssc.wisc.edu

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Office Hours: W 10:15-11:45 (Fall'09)

Curriculum Vitae

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 30 to 40% of increased earnings inequality among married couples between 1967 and 2003.

CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Fertility/Families and Households