Beyond the local marriage market [PDF]
This study examines whether the increase of geographical heterogamy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is related to modernization. Specifically, we test whether mass communication and mass transport enhanced the likelihood of a geographically
Ineke Maas, Richard Zijdeman
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A review of the antecedents of union dissolution [PDF]
The question of what factors contribute to the stability of coresidential partnerships has attracted the attention of many social scientists. This study summarizes recent research on the determinants of union dissolution within a set of substantive ...
Marika Jalovaara, Torkild Lyngstad
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Educational homogamy, parenting practices and children’s early development
, 2016 This thesis investigates the pattern of parental educational homogamy and its implications for parenting practices and children’s early development in contemporary Britain. At the heart of the thesis lies an interest in the mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of educational success and, more specifically, the consequences for children ...
González-Sancho, C +1 more
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What's love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability [PDF]
The determinants of marital instability is an important area of research for demography, sociology and economics, with a host of public policy outcomes being significantly affected by family breakdown.
Bruce Chapman, Peng Yu, Rebecca Kippen
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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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Childhood and Family Experiences and the Social Integration of Young Migrants [PDF]
We use sibling variation in age at migration to study how early life exposure to the host country affects social integration in adulthood. Building on a Swedish population-wide dataset, we show that early experiences affect the probability of living ...
Anders Böhlmark +2 more
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Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment. [PDF]
NPJ Sci Learn, 2023 Wolfram T, Morris D.
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Do changing institutional settings matter? : educational attainment and family related employment interruptions in Germany [PDF]
"Cross-sectional studies show that in West Germany women with different levels of educational attainment participate differently in the labor market. In this paper, I examine one potential underlying mechanism: the re-entry of mothers in the labor market
Drasch, Katrin
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The impact of parent's and spouses' education on divorce rates in Norway [PDF]
According to both economic and sociological theory, a couple's divorce rate may be influenced by their own educational attainment, that of their parents, and whether they have taken further education after marriage, although predictions are ambiguous ...
Torkild Lyngstad
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Educational homogamy of new women in Spain
, 2006 This paper analyses the form in which educational expansion in Spain has affected the level of educational homogamy with regard to the female population that was born since 1949. Three hypotheses are tested, taking into account the Labor Force Survey and the Spanish Fertility Survey of 1999.
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