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The Network Expression of a Roma Diaspora
Global Networks, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2025.ABSTRACT Despite the longstanding debates among ethnographers and policymakers regarding the social organization of the Roma–the largest and most marginalized native ethnocultural minority in Europe–quantitative analyses are limited. This is partly due to a unique combination of social closure and spatial dispersion of most Roma groups, exacerbated by ...
Francisco J. Ogáyar +4 more
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Demographic Research, 2017 Background: In modern, highly developed countries the association between education and fertility seems to be equivocal: A negative influence of education mainly applies to women, while among men the correlation is often positive or negligible.
Beata Osiewalska
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Inequality in Family Formation and Dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe
Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Comparative research on socioeconomic inequalities in family transitions has largely overlooked Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) both before and after 1989, often applying broad theories without accounting for regional specificities or focusing too narrowly on single countries.
Thomas P. Heyes, Martin Kreidl
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Socio-economic homogamy and its effects on the stability of cohabiting unions
Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2015 The tendency towards socio-economic homogamy – partner similarity in terms of socio-economic status – is of great interest to social scientists, for two reasons.
Elina Mäenpää
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Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2025.ABSTRACT This article reviews research on education and stratification in contemporary Japan. Particular attention is paid to (1) inequality in educational opportunities and outcomes, including learning experiences, attitudes, behaviors, achievement, and attainment; (2) educational gradients in multidimensional well‐being, such as labor market outcomes,
Satoshi Araki
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Racial Discrimination in the Marriage Market? An Exploration of Swedish Adoption Data
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3, May 2025.ABSTRACT Objective Recent studies suggest that immigrants trade youth when partnering with members of the White majority population. This study contributes to this emerging literature by examining whether this trade should be understood as differential treatment based on immigrant status or as a broader dynamic of racial preferences in the marriage ...
Annika Elwert
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The Correlation Between Husband's and Wife's Education: Canada, 1971-1996 [PDF]
We present a measure of the correlation between the education levels of spouses based on a bivariate ordered probit model. The change in this correlation over time can be measured while controlling for the large changes in the educational attainment ...
John Burbidge, Les Robb, Lonnie Magee
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Who marries whom? Educational homogamy in Norway [PDF]
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.
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Johan Heldal
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The Dynamics of Assortative Mating in Germany [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is well known that individuals do not mate randomly with respect to social and cultural traits, and that highly assortative mating can lead ...
Grave, Barbara S., Schmidt, Christoph M.
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives To decipher the social behaviors and public health status of a 19th‐century small Western Pyrenean community using various historical demography data. Methods From censuses, civil and parish registers of births, marriages, and deaths/burials, migration archives, and administrative records, we analyzed a series of demographic ...
Jean‐Pierre Dugène +1 more
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