关键词: 婚姻壁垒, 婚姻匹配, 同质婚, 交换婚

Abstract: Marital barrier is a key indicator to measure the difficulties of marrying among different social groups. It is not clear how high the marital barriers are in contemporary China. Using a national survey on “Social Development” carried out in 2012 2013,this article measures the marital barriers among different educational,social class,and income groups. Log-linear and ordered logistic regression models show that the greatest marital barrier from education is the traditional norm in which husband is usually older than wife. The higher the social class is,the greater the marital barriers are. Higher income is associated with greater probability of endogamy. In contemporary China,marital barriers are surprisingly high. Homogamy but not heterogamy is still the leading pattern of assortative mating. Social inequality is shaped and maintained through marital barriers.

Keywords: Marital Barriers, Assortative Mating, Homogamy, Intermarriage