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.
Kraft, Kornelius, Neimann, Stefanie
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Educational homogamy and assortative mating have not increased [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased.
Gihleb, Rania, Lang, Kevin
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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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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.
Henryk Domański, Dariusz Przybysz
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Educational homogamy in Norway: Trends and patterns [PDF]
, 2000 This paper focuses on trends and patterns in educational homogamy over time. A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of homogamy in Norway.
Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth, Heldal, Johan
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The educational homogamy gap between married and cohabiting couples in Latin America. [PDF]
Popul Res Policy Rev, 2013 The explosive expansion of non-marital cohabitation in Latin America since the 1970s has led to the narrowing of the gap in educational homogamy between married and cohabiting couples (what we call "homogamy gap") as shown by our analysis of 29 census samples encompassing eight countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico ...
Esteve A, López LA, McCaa R.
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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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Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2006 This article analyses patterns and trends in educational assortative mating of the Spanish women born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. By means of loglinear models we examine the following issues: i) intensity and changes in
Clara Cortina, Albert Esteve
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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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Does higher education expansion promote educational homogamy? Evidence from married couples of the post-80s generation in Shanghai, China. [PDF]
Soc Sci Res, 2016 Hu A, Qian Z.
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