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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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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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Assortative matching among same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States, 1990-2000

Demographic Research, 2009
Same-sex couples are less likely to be homogamous than different-sex couples on a variety of characteristics, including race/ethnicity, age, and education. This study confirms results from previous studies using 1990 U.S. census data and extends previous
Christine Schwartz, Nikki Graff
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Relative Resources in Couples and Their Childbearing Behavior in the United States

Comparative Population Studies
A growing body of research indicates significant variation in the fertility-education relationship by partner education across high income countries. However, little is known on the education-fertility-couple nexus in the US context.
Natalie Nitsche
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Marriage choices and social reproduction [PDF]

This article studies the relationship between partner selection and socioeconomic status (SES) attainment and mobility in five rural parishes in southern Sweden, 1815-1894.
Christer Lundh, Martin Dribe
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´Just Living Together´ [PDF]

This article tests the assumption that cohabitation makes a difference in the allocation of child care responsibilities within couples. It has often been presumed that cohabiting individuals are less likely to adhere to traditional gender ideology than ...
María-José González, Pau Miret-Gamundi, Rocío Treviño   +2 more
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The social significance of homogamy [PDF]

, 2008
It is a long-standing principle in anthropology, sociology but also economics, that there are strong social and material incentives for people to marry or partner on the basis of social similarity, thus encouraging equality within partnerships but social
Brynin, Malcolm, Longhi, Simonetta, Martínez Pérez, Álvaro   +2 more
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