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Assortative mating by ethnic background and education among individuals with an immigrant background in Sweden

Journal of Family Research, 2010
This paper analyzes the determinants of assortative mating by ethnicity and education for individuals with an immigrant background in Sweden, focusing on the role of individual, marriage market and parental characteristics.
Aycan Çelikaksoy, Lena Nekby, Saman Rashid   +2 more
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Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan

Demography, 2022
AbstractResearch on educational assortative mating has devoted much attention to educational expansion but has been less focused on a concurrent trend of importance: growing differentiation among higher education institutions. In this study, I examine whether the bifurcation between high- and low-tier institutions in the context of high participation ...
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A Four-Country Study on the Relationship Between Parental Educational Homogamy and Children's Health from Infancy to Adolescence. [PDF]

Popul Res Policy Rev, 2022
Pesando LM.
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Trends in educational assortative marriage in China from 1970 to 2000 [PDF]

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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Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain [PDF]

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
Albert Esteve, Clara Cortina
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“Like two peas in a pod?” Homogamous personalities, education, and union dissolution

Genus
This paper examines the association between the level of similarity in the “Big Five” personality traits of the partners in different-sex couples and their risk of union dissolution.
Elias Hofmann, Sandra Krapf
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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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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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Social change and educational homogamy

, 2006
A partir de una amplia revisión bibliográfica y basándose en los datos de un estudio realizado sobre una muestra representativa de la provincia de Lérida (N=1.219) se analiza en este artículo la persistencia de la homogamia educativa en un contexto de expansión de la escolarización, en especial, de las cohortes femeninas españolas nacidas con ...
Mayoral, Dolors, Samper, Lluís
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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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