Who marries whom and intentions for second child: Using family decision-making power as mediator. [PDF]
PLoS ONEInterest in exploring fertility intentions, decisions, or the actual number of children through the perspective of assortative mating has been increasing; however, the mechanisms linking these variables remain unclear.
Yuan Dang, Xin Liu
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Editorial on the Special Issue “Changes in Educational Homogamy and Its Consequences”
Comparative Population StudiesRecent decades have seen major changes in the educational profiles of the populations of Western industrialised countries, notably a sharp rise in educational attainment and a reversal of the gender gap in education.
Pia Blossfeld +2 more
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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, Henryk Domanski
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From peers to partners: The peer-context origins of adolescent heterosexual romance. [PDF]
J Res AdolescAbstract Romantic partnerships are highly influential for adolescent development, but many questions remain as to how and with whom such relationships emerge. By adopting a dynamic social network perspective, this study furthers our understanding of the peer‐related precursors to heterosexual adolescent romance.
McMillan C, Kreager DA, Veenstra R.
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Does higher education expansion promote educational homogamy? Evidence from married couples of the post-80s generation in Shanghai, China [PDF]
Social Science Research, 2016 Zhenchao Qian
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The Proximate Determinants of Educational Homogamy: The Effects of First Marriage, Marital Dissolution, Remarriage, and Educational Upgrading [PDF]
Demography, 2012 Christine Schwartz, Robert D Mare
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Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 Individuals match on length and type of education. We investigate whether the systematic relationship between educations of partners is explained by opportunities (e.g. low search frictions) or preferences (e.g. complementarities in household production or portfolio optimization).
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
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Demographic Research, 2023 Background: Rising median age at marriage and increasing lifestyle differentials across occupations suggest that occupations increasingly offer important signals of the economic and cultural resources of potential spouses.
Kate Choi, Yue Qian
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Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance.
Kraft, Kornelius, Neimann, Stefanie
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The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels [PDF]
Demography, 2013 Abstract In this article, we explore the impacts that education expansion and increased levels in educational homogamy have had on couples’ isolated illiteracy rates, defined as the proportion of illiterates in union that are married to an illiterate partner.
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