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Can Anyone be "The" One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating [PDF]
Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities.
Marco Francesconi, Michele Belot
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EcosphereWe investigated mate size preferences in olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea), one of the world's smallest and most abundant sea turtle species, using data from two years near a single mass nesting site.
Ashis Kumar Das +4 more
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Selection and Assortative Mating
, 1984 Theoretical aspects of selection and assortative mating were considered separately and jointly. Selection based on the conditional mean of the merit variable given the data maximizes the expected value of the merit variable when the proportion selected ...
Fernando, Rohan Luigi
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Educational Assortative Mating and Children’s School Readiness [PDF]
One of the concerns behind parental educational sorting is its potential to widen disparities in the ability of families to invest in their children’s development. Using data from the Fragile Families and Children Wellbeing Study, this paper investigates
Audrey Beck, Carlos González-Sancho
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Assortative mating in humans. [PDF]
, 2019 Human mate choice is far from random. Assortative mating can be either positive (homogamy), when people prefer and choose partners with self-similar characteristics, or negative (heterogamy, complementarity), when people prefer self-dissimilar partners ...
Štěrbová, Zuzana
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Data from: Scrutinizing assortative mating in birds
, 2019 It is often claimed that pair bonds preferentially form between individuals that resemble one another. Such assortative mating appears to be widespread throughout the animal kingdom.
Valcu, Mihai +10 more
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Current Zoology, 2010 The theory of ecological speciation suggests that assortative mating evolves most easily when mating preferences are directly linked to ecological traits that are subject to divergent selection.
Martine E. MAAN, Ole SEEHAUSEN
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Robert Mare's Legacy: Advances in the Study of Assortative Mating. [PDF]
Res Soc Stratif Mobil, 2023 Schwartz CR.
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Essays on assortative mating in marriage
In Chapter 1, increased assortative mating by educational attainment within the U.S. marriagemarket since 1960 is found. Unlike previous research, I study assortative mating by educational attainment for different educational groups instead of the whole ...
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The Effects of Spousal Education on Individual Earnings – A Study of Married Swedish Couples [PDF]
A positive association between spousal education and individual earnings is a common empirical finding (e.g., Benham, 1974 and Rossetti and Tanda, 2000). The two most common explanations for this are sample selection and crossproductivity effects.
Åström, Johanna
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