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EDUCATIONAL HOMOGAMY IN 22 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

European Societies, 2007
ABSTRACT Research on socioeconomic homogamy was developed by stratification researchers who used marriage patterns to describe how open stratification systems are. In cross-national studies primary concern on marriage homogamy lies in examination of commonality and differences in their social structures.
Dariusz Przybysz
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Educational Homogamy

Journal of Human Resources, 2009
Individuals match on length and type of education. We find that around half of the systematic sorting on education is explained by the tendency of individuals to marry someone who went to the same educational institution or to an institution near them.
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Svarer, Michael
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Propinquity and educational homogamy

Sociological Forum, 1991
Education is one of the most important dimensions in patterns of assortative marriage. It is unclear whether the pronounced and persistent evidence of educational homogamy is an outcome of educational propinquity, that is, individuals' attendance at the same school during the same time, or of individuals' general preferences for spouses with ...
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Racial and Educational Homogamy: 1980 to 2000

Sociological Perspectives, 2008
Two recent trends in marriage imply different consequences for the degree of heterogeneity in American society: Increasing racial intermarriage indicates higher levels of social integration, while continued educational homogamy potentially enlarges socioeconomic inequality. This article analyzes census 5 percent Public Use Micro Samples data from 1980
Xuanning Fu, Tim B. Heaton
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Trends in Educational Homogamy

Sociology of Education, 1972
Trends in educational homogamy have been examined using the 1/1000 census sample for 1960. The general trend has been one of declining educational homogamy for both white and nonwhite couples. The decline has ended for white couples but has continued through the period 1956-60 for nonwhite couples.
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Education, Homogamy, and Religious Commitment

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1994
L'A. reprend une hypothese de Berger qui met en relation l'education des protestants conservateurs avec l'affiliation religieuse de l'epouse pour finalement influencer l'engagement religieux. L'education a des relations plus negatives (avec plusieurs indicateurs de l'engagement) parmi les conservateurs protestants maries a des gens non affilies ...
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Social closure among the higher educated: trends in educational homogamy in 55 countries

Social Science Research, 2003
Abstract Loglinear analysis is used to assess for 55 countries—and for two age groups within these countries—the degree of educational homogamy with regard to a specific boundary in the educational structure, which separates persons with a relatively high educational level from the rest of the population. The aim of the research is to gain insight in
Jeroen Smits
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Educational Homogamy in Two Gilded Ages

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015
Patterns of intermarriage between persons who have varying levels of educational attainment are indicators of socioeconomic closure and affect the family backgrounds of children. This article documents trends in educational assortative mating throughout the twentieth century in the United States, using socioeconomic data on adults observed in several ...
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Historical Trends and Variations in Educational Homogamy

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1976
A sample of 443,520 married couples from the 1970 U.S. Census is examined to determine trends and variations in educational homogamy and husband-hypogamy, partially replicating a study from the 1960 Census. Assortative mating by education has implications for both social differentiation and marriage patterns.
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Educational expansion and educational homogamy among the highly educated in Sweden

2021
Post-secondary education has expanded dramatically around the world during the last sixty years. In Sweden, tertiary educational attainment tripled for women and doubled for men between the 1950 and 1980 cohorts. The expansion of higher education has been accompanied by increasing horizontal stratification within the highly educated group, as education
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