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Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Tertiary Education in Europe
Comparative Population StudiesIn this paper, we examine (1) whether parental educational homogamy is associated with children’s tertiary educational attainment in different European countries and (2) whether this association is moderated by families’ educational backgrounds.
Pia Blossfeld +2 more
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Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022 The purpose of this article is to examine if educational homogamy patterns are associated intergenerationally, the extent to which today’s couples are homogamous, and how this translates into levels of family income and financial and overall well-being.
Lesley Andres
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Who marries whom? Educational homogamy in Norway [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2003 A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited time period.
Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth, Heldal, Johan
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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 Expansion and Homogamy. An Analysis of the Consequences of Educational Upgrading for Assortative Mating in Switzerland [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 We analyze the changing relationship between education and assortative mating over the course of educational expansion in Switzerland between 1970 and 2000.
Becker Rolf, Jann Ben
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Pathways to educational homogamy in marital and cohabiting unions. [PDF]
Demography, 2010 Abstract There is considerable disagreement about whether cohabitors are more or less likely to be educationally homogamous than married couples. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I reconcile many of the disparate findings of previous research by conducting a “stock and flow” analysis of assortative cohabitation ...
Schwartz CR.
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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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Decomposing trends in educational homogamy and heterogamy – The case of Ireland
Social Science Research, 2022 Although extensive research has examined how partner search behavior and the educational composition of partner markets have changed over time, we lack insight into the extent to which these changes have contributed to trends in educational homogamy.
Skopek, Jan, Leesch, Julia
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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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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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