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Abstract
The status exchange hypothesis of union formation has been extensively examined in different societies. In this study, we explore beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China. Based on the 2010–2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we apply a new method that directly estimates the magnitude of exchange by considering beauty–status intermarriage as a treatment. Our results show that in China women exchange attractive appearance for men’s higher socioeconomic status, but men’s physical attractiveness does not exchange for women’s higher socioeconomic status. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the traditional marriage exchange pattern of “wife’s beauty matching with husband’s talent” mainly persists among women with lower levels of education and from families of lower socioeconomic status.
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The study of social inequality is and has been one of the central preoccupations of social scientists. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is dedicated to publishing the highest, most innovative research on issues of social inequality from a broad diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives. The journal is also dedicated to cutting edge summaries of prior research and fruitful exchanges that will stimulate future research on issues of social inequality. The study of social inequality is and has been one of the central preoccupations of social scientists.
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