Educational homogamy lowers the odds of reproductive failure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Assortative mating based on education is a common phenomenon. We investigated whether it affected parameters of reproductive performance such as childlessness, offspring number and age at first marriage.
Susanne Huber, Martin Fieder
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Parental educational homogamy and under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: Clarifying the association's intricacy [PDF]
Scientific African, 2020 Worldwide, under-five mortality (U5M) rate is highest in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). There exists a gap in knowledge on the pathway through which Parental Educational Homogamy (PEH) influences U5M in SSA.
Ayo Stephen Adebowale +5 more
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Does individual educational attainment affect educational homogamy?—Evidence from CGSS
International Studies of Economics, 2022 Family is the basic unit that constitutes social relations, and marriage‐matching determines the development trajectory of a household. Education has become one of the most important ingredients of marriage in modern society, and the proportion of ...
Congjia Huo, Lingming Chen
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Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Tertiary Education in Europe
Comparative Population StudiesIn this paper, we examine (1) whether parental educational homogamy is associated with children’s tertiary educational attainment in different European countries and (2) whether this association is moderated by families’ educational backgrounds.
Pia Blossfeld +2 more
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Educational homogamy and assortative mating have not increased [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased.
Gihleb, Rania, Lang, Kevin
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Do Opposites Attract? Educational Assortative Mating and Dynamics of Wage Homogamy in Switzerland, 1992–2014 [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss Labour Force Survey and the Swiss Household Panel.
Ravazzini Laura +2 more
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Does higher education expansion promote educational homogamy? Evidence from married couples of the post-80s generation in Shanghai, China [PDF]
Social Science Research, 2016 Anning Hu, Zhenchao Qian
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The Proximate Determinants of Educational Homogamy: The Effects of First Marriage, Marital Dissolution, Remarriage, and Educational Upgrading [PDF]
Demography, 2012 Christine R Schwartz, Robert D Mare
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The mechanism of assortative mating for educational attainment: a study of Finnish and Dutch twins and their spouses [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Introduction: Assortative mating refers describes a phenomenon in which individuals with similar phenotypic traits are more likely to mate and reproduce with each other; i.e.
Bodine M. A. Gonggrijp +9 more
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Comparative Population StudiesThe extent of educational homogamy has important consequences for social inequalities and social cohesion. However, little is known about current trends, cross-national differences, and the drivers of educational homogamy in Europe.
Wilfred Uunk
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