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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data [PDF]
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity, religion and education are not responsible for the increasing marital instability in Austria.
Martin Halla +2 more
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SociusThis 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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Who marries whom in Great Britain? [PDF]
, 2000 We investigate educational assortative mating, or homogamy, by modelling the hazard of entry to first marriage for a sample of residents of Great Britain. Using marital, and imputed educational, life-histories drawn from the British Household Panel Study,
Halpin, Brendan, Wing Chan, Tak
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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 StudiesAmong 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 +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 +2 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 StudiesA 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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, 2015 URL des Documents de travail : http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/cesdp/cesdp2015.htmlDocuments de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2015.91 - ISSN : 1955-611XFollowing recent economic literature on the subject, the article estimates the impact of ...
Courtioux, Pierre, Lignon, Vincent
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Social Capital and Cultural Participation: Spousal Influences on Attendance at Arts Events [PDF]
Empirical efforts to study the determinants of participation in the arts have demonstrated that adult attendance at arts events is influenced by adolescent exposure to the arts, educational attainment, and current income.
Craig Barton Upright
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