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Untangling the Role of Assortative Mating in Educational Reproduction in Twelve European Countries

Comparative Population Studies
In this study, we explore how educational differences in demographic behavior – in particular, mating patterns and fertility – mediate the intergenerational reproduction of educational inequality in twelve European countries.
Vanessa Wittemann, Gordey Yastrebov
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Ethnic and educational homogamy in Luxembour

, 2010
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Alieva, A, HARTUNG, Anne
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Spousal educational matching patterns and fertility behavior

The Journal of Chinese Sociology
The rise in women’s educational attainment and shifts in gender roles have reshaped marriage patterns and childbearing in China. Drawing on household-level data, this study examines cohort changes in spousal educational matching and their implications ...
Shisong Qing
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Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain

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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Homogamy, global and educational distance between spouses

Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 2015
This article analyzes whether the process of recognition, validation and certification of competences (RVCC) can be a part of an attempt for an adult to converge his education level to the spouse’s. Taking as a starting point the theoretical framework on the spouse choice and homogamy, 289 questionnaires were applied to adults in the RVCC process, in ...
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Crossing Which Boundary? New Evidence on Racial and Educational Assortative Mating among Recent Different-Sex and Same-Sex Marriages

Socius
This study revisits the question of “who marries whom” by examining detailed patterns of racial and educational assortative mating across newlywed different-sex and same-sex couples in the United States.
Haoming Song
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Partners’ Age Difference and Marital Dissolution in Italy. A Cohort Comparison

Comparative Population Studies
Among the factors related to marital disruption, age assortative mating (who marries whom in terms of age) has received less attention than others. In this study, we study the association between partners’ age difference and marital disruption in Italy ...
Giulia Corti, Daniela Bellani, Antonella Guarneri, Francesca Rinesi   +3 more
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Relative Resources in Couples and Their Childbearing Behavior in the United States

Comparative Population Studies
A growing body of research indicates significant variation in the fertility-education relationship by partner education across high income countries. However, little is known on the education-fertility-couple nexus in the US context.
Natalie Nitsche
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Assortative matching among same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States, 1990-2000

Demographic Research, 2009
Same-sex couples are less likely to be homogamous than different-sex couples on a variety of characteristics, including race/ethnicity, age, and education. This study confirms results from previous studies using 1990 U.S. census data and extends previous
Christine Schwartz, Nikki Graff
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Educational homogamy, parenting practices and children’s early development

, 2014
This thesis investigates the pattern of parental educational homogamy and its implications for parenting practices and children’s early development in contemporary Britain. At the heart of the thesis lies an interest in the mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of educational success and, more specifically, the consequences for children ...
González-Sancho, C, Gonzalez-Sancho, Carlos   +1 more
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