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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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Shifting Boundaries: Trends in Religious and Educational Homogamy

American Sociological Review, 1991
I assess whether intermarriage between Protestants and Catholics has increased over the course of the twentieth century and, if it has, whether the declining salience of religious boundaries has been accompanied by a rising importance of educational boundaries in spouse selection.
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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
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Educational Homogamy Among Married and Unmarried Couples in Europe

Journal of Family Issues, 2008
In this article, educational homogamy among married and cohabiting couples in selected European countries is examined. Using data from two waves (2002 and 2004) of the European Social Survey, this article compares three cultural and institutional contexts that differ in terms of institutionalization of cohabitation.
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Educational homogamy

2017
Lijun Song, Rachel Skaggs, Cleothia Frazier   +2 more
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Decomposing trends in educational homogamy and heterogamy – The case of Ireland

Social Science Research, 2023
Julia Leesch, Jan Skopek
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Change in prevalence or preference? Trends in educational homogamy in six European countries in a time of educational expansion

Social Science Research, 2020
Beatrice Elena Chromková Manea
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Marrying Within the Alma Mater: Understanding the Role of Same-University Marriages in Educational Homogamy

Sociological Research Online, 2020
Karly Ford
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