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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality
Journal of Political Economy, 2019 We use data from Denmark, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States to document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries.
Lasse Eika, M. Mogstad, basit. zafar
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Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2009 Desenvolveu-se um estudo de simulação estocástica com o objetivo de verificar as consequências do uso combinado de acasalamento dirigido e sêmen sexado em uma população de bovinos de corte sob seleção.
Haroldo Henrique de Rezende Neves +3 more
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The Effect of Assortative Mating on Wealth Inequality, why do the Rich Choose the Rich? [PDF]
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2023 This paper unravels the effect of assortative mating on wealth inequality. In light of the reviewed literature, it is concluded that there is a significant effect of assortative mating on wealth inequality, it is mainly driven by similarity in background
Arabela ICHIM +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2011 The M and S molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s. have been considered incipient species for more than ten years, yet the mechanism underlying assortative mating of these incipient species has remained elusive.
Michelle R Sanford +5 more
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Assortative Mating in Animals [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2013 Assortative mating occurs when there is a correlation (positive or negative) between male and female phenotypes or genotypes across mated pairs. To determine the typical strength and direction of assortative mating in animals, we carried out a meta-analysis of published measures of assortative mating for a variety of phenotypic and genotypic traits in ...
Jiang, Yuexin X. +2 more
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Evidence for differential assortative female preference in association with refugial isolation of rainbow skinks in Australia's tropical rainforests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Divergence driven by female preference can give rise to pre-mating isolation more rapidly than post-mating isolation can evolve through the accumulation of allelic incompatibilities.
Gaynor Dolman
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Assortative mating for obesity [PDF]
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007 Assortative mating is the nonrandom mating of individuals with respect to phenotype and cultural factors. Previous studies of assortative mating for obesity have indicated that it may have contributed to the obesity epidemic. However, those studies all used body mass index or skinfold thicknesses to measure obesity and did not always account for ...
John R, Speakman +3 more
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Assortative mating in hybrid zones is remarkably ineffective in promoting speciation
bioRxiv, 2019 Assortative mating and other forms of partial prezygotic isolation are often viewed as being more important than partial postzygotic isolation (low fitness of hybrids) early in the process of speciation.
D. Irwin
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Never mind I'll find someone like me – Assortative mating preferences on Tinder
, 2020 Previous literature has identified assortative mating as the most frequent deviation from random mating both in offline dating and on classic online dating websites.
Brecht Neyt +2 more
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Choosing mates based on the diet of your ancestors: replication of non-genetic assortative mating in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Assortative mating has been a focus of considerable research because of its potential to influence biodiversity at many scales. Sharon et al. (2010) discovered that an inbred strain of Drosophila melanogaster mated assortatively based on the diet of ...
Michael A. Najarro +3 more
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