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Health EquityIntroduction: Promoting healthy dietary patterns among older adults is a crucial strategy for mitigating health equity disparities. As a key social determinant, educational assortative marriage (EAM) profoundly shapes health behaviors in later life via ...
Boshu Mao
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Educational gap between partners and sterilization
Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 87, Issue 4, Page 1727-1746, August 2025.Abstract Objective This study compares the sterilization behavior of couples with varying joint education levels and union types. Background A couple's joint education levels affect the resources available to them and the power dynamics within the relationship; they also help determine which spouse takes primary responsibility for the couple's ...
Kate H. Choi
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Couple relationships and health: The role of the individual’s and the partner’s education
Journal of Family Research, 2019 A positive correlation between couple relationships and health is well established. However, recent studies indicate that the beneficial effects of couple relationships on health vary substantially according to the characteristics of the relationship and
Johannes Stauder +2 more
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Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities? [PDF]
Individuals match on length and type of education. We investigate whether the systematic relationship between educations of partners is explained by opportunities (e.g. low search frictions) or preferences (e.g.
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
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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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Trends in educational assortative marriage in China from 1970 to 2000
Demographic Research, 2010 This research examines trends in educational assortative marriage in China among first marriages from 1970 to 2000 using data from the 2000 China Population Census and the 2001 Chinese Demographic Reproductive Health Survey. The results reveal decreasing
Hongyun Han
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Stratified patterns of divorce: Earnings, education, and gender
Demographic Research, 2015 Background: Despite evidence that divorce has become more prevalent among weaker socioeconomic groups, knowledge about the stratification aspects of divorce in Israel is lacking.
Amit Kaplan, Anat Herbst
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Social Structure and Personality Assortment Among Married Couples [PDF]
, 2006 We study the influence of social structure on assortative mating for personality in a large national sample (n=3616) of married and cohabitating couples in the Netherlands.
Aken, Marcel A.G. van +2 more
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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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Trends in Women’s Educational Advantage and Divorce in East and West Germany
Comparative Population StudiesCouples in which wives have more education than their husbands have been found to be more likely than other couples to divorce. But this relationship varies across time and place.
Flavia Mazzeo +3 more
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