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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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New Evidence on the Causes of Educational Homogamy [PDF]
, 2010 Educational homogamy is an important but poorly understood source of inequality. This paper analyzes a group of men and women who do not meet their spouses in school, are not sorted by education at work, and have no financial incentives to marry educated
Bruze, Gustaf
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Meeting online or offline? Patterns and trends for co-resident couples in early 21st century Britain [PDF]
, 2020 Data from the 2010-12 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL-3) are used to document trends and patterns in where co-resident couples in Britain first met, focusing specifically on the rapid rise of meeting online, which both echoes ...
Lampard, Richard
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Changing educational homogamy: shifting preferences or evolving educational distribution?
Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022 AbstractWe study changes in educational homogamy in the US and four European countries over the decade covering the Great Recession. The marital preferences identified point to the widening of the social gap between different educational groups since these preferences have increased the inclination of the individuals to match with others of similar ...
Anna Naszodi, Francisco Mendonca
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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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Educational assortative mating in Italy: what can Gini’s homogamy index still say? [PDF]
, 2015 The homogamy index proposed by Gini is applied to describe the changes occurred in marital choice - across time and regions in Italy. The relevant increase in education by women has provoked an increase in the number of homogamous couples and in an ...
DE ROSE, Alessandra, Fraboni, R.
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Homogamy in socio-economic background and education, and the dissolution of cohabiting unions
Demographic Research, 2014 Background: Despite the increasing prevalence of cohabitation, knowledge of how socio-economic homogamy affects the stability of cohabiting unions is scant.
Elina Mäenpää, Marika Jalovaara
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Couples’ places of meeting in late 20th century Britain: class, continuity and change [PDF]
, 2007 This article examines couples’ places or contexts of meeting in the second half of the 20th century in Great Britain, utilizing a typology developed by Bozon and Héran.
Lampard, Richard
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Are men intimidated by highly educated women? Undercover on Tinder [PDF]
, 2019 In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success on the mobile dating app Tinder. To do so, we conducted a field experiment on Tinder in which we collected data on 3,600 profile evaluations.
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Demographic Research, 2020 Background: From a historical perspective, the transition from a pre-industrial to a modern society is associated with increasing social status heterogamy.
Martin Klesment +2 more
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