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Marriage and Work: an analysis for French couples in the last decade [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Power, Sect and State [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review of A. Maria A. Kastrinou, Power, Sect and State in Syria: The Politics of Marriage and Identity amongst the Druze. London and New York: I.B.
Schäfers, Marlene
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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States.
Furtado, Delia   +2 more
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Intermarriage and Ethnicity: Punjabi Mexican Americans, Mexican Japanese, and Filipino Americans [PDF]

open access: yes, 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

open access: yesTheatrum 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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Why Dowry Payments Declined With Modernisation in Europe but are Rising in India [PDF]

open access: yes
In contrast to most dowry oriented societies where payments have declined with modernisation, those in India have undergone significant inflation over the last five decades.This paper explains the difference between these two experiences by focusing on ...
Anderson, K.S.
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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Bricks and urbanism in the Indus Valley rise and decline [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Reproductive Performance, Inbreeding, and Genetic Diversity in Montbeliarde Dairy Cattle Obtained by Absorption Crossing

open access: yesAnimals
Montbeliarde dairy cattle were introduced in Ecuador with the aim of ameliorating the production performance of other cattle breeds. The aim was to analyze the reproductive performance, demographic structure, inbreeding, and genetic diversity of ...
Luis F. Cartuche-Macas   +4 more
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