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Educational Homogamy in Two Gilded Ages

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016
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 ...
R. Mare
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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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Marrying Within the Alma Mater: Understanding the Role of Same-University Marriages in Educational Homogamy

Sociological research online, 2020
Most prior work on educational homogamy does not distinguish between college attendees who marry someone who attended the same university (same-university marriages) and those who marry someone who attended a different university (different-university ...
K. Ford
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Explaining Declining Trends in Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan

, 2020
Research on educational assortative mating has devoted much attention to educational expansion but has been less focused on a concurrent trend of importance – growing differentiation among higher education institutions.
F. Uchikoshi
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Rising educational gradients in mortality among U.S. whites: What are the roles of marital status and educational homogamy?

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2019
The educational gradient in U.S. mortality has been rising among non-Hispanic whites. A common intuition sees the growing educational divide in marital status and increases in educational homogamy as potential explanations.
W. Fan, Yue Qian
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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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