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Size assortative mating

, 2019
Data used for size assortative mating analyses for giraffe ...
Painting, Christina, Pierre de Villemereuil (5893718), Gabriela Tezanos-Pinto (3327708), Greg Holwell (815633), LeGrice, Rebecca Jane, Tezanos-Pinto, Gabriela, Rebecca Jane LeGrice (6404255), Holwell, Greg, Christina Painting (5960975), de Villemereuil, Pierre   +9 more
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Do assortative preferences contribute to assortative mating for adiposity? [PDF]

, 2014
Assortative mating for adiposity, whereby levels of adiposity in romantic partners tend to be positively correlated, has implications for population health due to the combined effects of partners' levels of adiposity on fertility and/or offspring health.
Anthony C. Little, Little, Anthony C., Lisa M. DeBruine, Benedict C. Jones, Fincher, Corey L., DeBruine, Lisa M., Fisher, Claire I., Hahn, Amanda C., Corey L. Fincher, Amanda C. Hahn, Jones, Benedict C., Claire I. Fisher   +11 more
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A candidate subspecies discrimination system involving a vomeronasal receptor gene with different alleles fixed in M. m. domesticus and M. m. musculus.

PLoS ONE, 2010
Assortative mating, a potentially efficient prezygotic reproductive barrier, may prevent loss of genetic potential by avoiding the production of unfit hybrids (i.e., because of hybrid infertility or hybrid breakdown) that occur at regions of secondary ...
Robert C Karn, Janet M Young, Christina M Laukaitis   +2 more
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Trends in educational assortative marriage in China from 1970 to 2000 [PDF]

This research examines trends in educational assortative marriage in China among first marriages from 1970 to 2000 using data from the 2000 China Population Census and the 2001 Chinese Demographic Reproductive Health Survey. The results reveal decreasing
Hongyun Han
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Assortative Matching and Reputation [PDF]

Consider Becker's classic 1963 matching model, with unobserved fixed types and stochastic publicly observed output. If types are complementary, then matching is assortative in the known Bayesian posteriors (the 'reputations').
Axel Anderson, Lones Smith
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Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France

, 2019
International audienceThis paper analyzes assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide descriptive evidence on the statistical association in several socioeconomic attributes of partners.
Nicolas Frémeaux, Frémeaux, Nicolas, Arnaud Lefranc, Lefranc, Arnaud   +3 more
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Neighborhoods and Racial Inequality in Assortative Mating and Fertility in the United States

Societies
While racial inequalities in assortative mating and fertility have been well documented, the role of neighborhoods has frequently been overlooked in explaining these disparities.
Karl Vachuska
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Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating [PDF]

This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages among immigrants in the United States. The dependent variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational choice ...
Houseworth, Christina A., Chiswick, Barry R.   +1 more
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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality [PDF]

, 2014
We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007.
Mogstad, Magne, Eika, Lasse, Zafar, Basit   +2 more
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Assortative mating in affective disorders

, 1981
Assortative mating was determined in 170 spouses of patients with major affective illness (bipolar and unipolar). An increase in affective disorders was found in both wives of affected men and husbands of affected women. The data suggest that assortative
Gruen, Rhoda, Mendlewicz, Julien, Fieve, Ronald R.R., Asnis, Lauren, Baron, Miron   +4 more
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