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Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain [PDF]

This article analyses patterns and trends in educational assortative mating of the Spanish women born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. By means of loglinear models we examine the following issues: i) intensity and changes in
Albert Esteve, Clara Cortina
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Social change and educational homogamy

, 2006
A partir de una amplia revisión bibliográfica y basándose en los datos de un estudio realizado sobre una muestra representativa de la provincia de Lérida (N=1.219) se analiza en este artículo la persistencia de la homogamia educativa en un contexto de expansión de la escolarización, en especial, de las cohortes femeninas españolas nacidas con ...
Mayoral, Dolors, Samper, Lluís
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“Like two peas in a pod?” Homogamous personalities, education, and union dissolution

Genus
This paper examines the association between the level of similarity in the “Big Five” personality traits of the partners in different-sex couples and their risk of union dissolution.
Elias Hofmann, Sandra Krapf
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Spousal educational matching patterns and fertility behavior

The Journal of Chinese Sociology
The rise in women’s educational attainment and shifts in gender roles have reshaped marriage patterns and childbearing in China. Drawing on household-level data, this study examines cohort changes in spousal educational matching and their implications ...
Shisong Qing
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The men behind economically successful women: A focus on Dutch dual-earner couples [PDF]

, 2012
Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, this paper compares the partners of economically successful women with those of women who have fared less well on the labor market.
Dykstra, P.A. (Pearl), Keizer, R. (Renske), Komter, A.E. (Aafke)   +2 more
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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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Crossing Which Boundary? New Evidence on Racial and Educational Assortative Mating among Recent Different-Sex and Same-Sex Marriages

Socius
This study revisits the question of “who marries whom” by examining detailed patterns of racial and educational assortative mating across newlywed different-sex and same-sex couples in the United States.
Haoming Song
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Homogamy, global and educational distance between spouses

Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 2015
This article analyzes whether the process of recognition, validation and certification of competences (RVCC) can be a part of an attempt for an adult to converge his education level to the spouse’s. Taking as a starting point the theoretical framework on the spouse choice and homogamy, 289 questionnaires were applied to adults in the RVCC process, in ...
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Partners’ Age Difference and Marital Dissolution in Italy. A Cohort Comparison

Comparative Population Studies
Among the factors related to marital disruption, age assortative mating (who marries whom in terms of age) has received less attention than others. In this study, we study the association between partners’ age difference and marital disruption in Italy ...
Giulia Corti, Daniela Bellani, Antonella Guarneri, Francesca Rinesi   +3 more
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Marriage Migration: Just another case of positive assortative matching? [PDF]

It is a stylized fact that marriage formation generally involves positive assortative matching (PAM) on education. We test whether this is also the case for immigrants who tend to import their spouses and potentially use education as an exchange ...
Celikaksoy, Aycan, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Verner, Mette   +2 more
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