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Homogamy and Redefining Economic Role of Women in Family: A Study in Eslamabad-e Gharb City, Iran [PDF]
تداوم و تغییر اجتماعیBackground and Aim: In recent decades, the enhancement of women's economic and social capital has led to their increased empowerment within Iranian society and familial life.
Vakil Ahmadi +2 more
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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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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Abstract Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased. The two are conceptually distinct but often confused.
Gihleb, Rania, Lang, Kevin
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Genus, 2020 In the last decades, Western societies have been involved in huge demographic changes, amongst which one of the most important has been the increasing postponement of the transition to parenthood.
Stefano Cantalini +2 more
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90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson +2 more
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Meta-analysis of studies about divorce in Iran [PDF]
مطالعات زن و خانواده, 2018 Study of the issue of divorce and factors affecting this subject are of those issues that have drawn the intellectual community and especially sociologists’ attention into this field in recent decades.
ali asghar firozjaeian +3 more
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Occupational Licensing, Intergenerational Occupational Persistence and Social Mobility
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the relationship between occupational regulation and intergenerational occupational persistence. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2024), we find that individuals are significantly more likely to enter a licensed occupation if a parent also worked in one, with the effect strongest in occupations where regulatory hurdles ...
Maria Koumenta, Mark Williams
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How I Met My Partner: Online Dating and the Homogamy Gap Between Same‐Sex and Different‐Sex Couples
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines whether online dating helps explain differences in homogamy between same‐sex and different‐sex couples in the United States. Background Same‐sex couples tend to exhibit lower levels of homogamy than different‐sex couples, yet the mechanisms underlying these differences remain unclear.
Jisu Park
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Women's Socioeconomic Advantage Over Their Partners and Relationship Dissolution: A 29‐Country Study
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms driving the association between women's socioeconomic advantage and the risk of relationship dissolution. Background Research consistently finds that different‐sex couples in which women have higher socioeconomic status than their partners are more likely to separate ...
Pilar Gonalons‐Pons, Allison Dunatchik
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The Role of Cognitive Abilities in Assortative Mating: Partner Preferences of Young Adults
Sociologický Časopis, 2019 This article focuses on the relationship between young adults' cognitive abilities and individual partner preferences. We worked with the Preference NSZ 2017 data set, which contains data on partner preferences and the results of the National Comparative
Markéta Šetinová +1 more
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