The mechanism of assortative mating for educational attainment: a study of Finnish and Dutch twins and their spouses [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Introduction: Assortative mating refers describes a phenomenon in which individuals with similar phenotypic traits are more likely to mate and reproduce with each other; i.e.
Bodine M. A. Gonggrijp +9 more
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Trends in the association between educational assortative mating, infant and child mortality in Nigeria [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Existing knowledge has established the connection between maternal education and child survival, but little is known about how educational assortative mating (EAM), relates to childhood mortality.
Tolulope Ariyo, Quanbao Jiang
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Marriage in the Melting Pot: An Evolutionary Approach to European Ancestry, Homogamy, and Fertility in the United States [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 To understand marriage patterns, homogamy, and fertility of women of European ancestry in the United States from an evolutionary perspective, we investigated if a prevalence of ancestral homogamy exists, the factors influencing a female preference for an
Alexander Schahbasi +4 more
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Understanding indirect assortative mating and its intergenerational consequences for educational attainment [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsWe develop a framework for understanding indirect assortative mating and provide updated definitions of key terms. We then develop family models that use partners of twins and siblings to freely estimate the degree of genetic and social homogamy, and ...
Hans Fredrik Sunde +2 more
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Household Joblessness in U.S. Metropolitan Areas during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Polarization and the Role of Educational Profiles [PDF]
Socius, 2023 The authors use Current Population Survey 2016 to 2021 quarterly data to analyze changes in household joblessness across metropolitan areas in the United States during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Thomas Biegert +2 more
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Who marries whom? Educational homogamy in Norway [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2003 A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited time period.
Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth, Heldal, Johan
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Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 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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Do Opposites Attract? Educational Assortative Mating and Dynamics of Wage Homogamy in Switzerland, 1992–2014 [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss Labour Force Survey and the Swiss Household Panel.
Ravazzini Laura +2 more
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Mechanisms creating homogamy in depressiveness in couples: A longitudinal study from Czechia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCouples often resemble each other in characteristics like depression, but the reasons for this homogamy (i.e., similarity) remain unclear. We investigated two potential mechanisms: preference for a self-similar partner and convergence (i.e., increasing ...
Zsófia Csajbók +5 more
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The Relevance of the Predominant Clonal Evolution (PCE) Model for the Molecular Epidemiology and Subspecific Taxonomy of Trypanosoma cruzi [PDF]
PathogensThe predominant clonal evolution (PCE) model is often misunderstood. Contrary to common belief, it is not restricted to strict mitotic clonality. Instead, it encompasses processes such as selfing, strong homogamy, and various forms of parthenogenesis, as
Michel Tibayrenc
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