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Marriage choices and social reproduction [PDF]
This article studies the relationship between partner selection and socioeconomic status (SES) attainment and mobility in five rural parishes in southern Sweden, 1815-1894.
Christer Lundh, Martin Dribe
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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race.
Furtado, Delia, Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos
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Marriage and Work: an analysis for French couples in the last decade [PDF]
This paper looks at French couples’ labour market behaviour over the last thirteen years, from 1990 to 2002. We find that the proportion of dual earners couples has been steadily rising over time.
Elena Stancanelli
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Effects of endogamy on microsporogenesis in popcorn (Zea mays L.) [PDF]
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2007 Inbred lines are necessary for the development of popcorn hybrids. Genes for several traits, among them thoserelated to the meiotic process, approach homozygosis during inbreeding. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate themeiotic stability of popcorn
Maria Fernanda Piffer Tomasi Baldez da Silva +3 more
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Endogamy, Consanguinity and Community Disease Profiles
Public Health Genomics, 2005 Considerable attention is paid to the role of consanguineous marriage as a causative factor in the prevalence of genetic disorders. At the same time, the potential influence of community endogamy on overall levels of homozygosity and disease profiles remains largely under-investigated.
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Can Anyone be "The" One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating [PDF]
Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities.
Marco Francesconi, Michele Belot
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Intermarriage and Ethnicity: Punjabi Mexican Americans, Mexican Japanese, and Filipino Americans [PDF]
, 1993 The problem is intermarriage, specifically intermarriages patterned by gender (all the men are from one ethnic background and almost all of the women from another) which produce significant biethnic communities.
Leonard, Karen B.
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On the Difficulty of Refuting or Confirming the Arguments about the Caste System
Theatrum Historiae, 2016 Any attempt to understand Indian society through the scholarship on caste confronts us with a large number of problems. Scholars of the last 150 years have routinely observed and even criticised writings on caste for these problems.
Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan
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Bricks and urbanism in the Indus Valley rise and decline [PDF]
, 2014 The Indus Civilization, often denoted by its major city Harappa, spanned almost two millennia from 3200 to 1300 BC. Its tradition reaches back to 7000 BC: a 5000 year long expansion of villages and towns, of trading activity, and of technological ...
Khan, Aurangzeb, Lemmen, Carsten
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Interethnic Marriage Decisions: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities [PDF]
This paper examines the effect of education on intermarriage and specifically, whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation and race.
Delia Furtado, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
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