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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Does love in the ivory tower fix the leaky pipeline? How academia's homogamous relationships shape careers. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe persistent "leaky pipeline", i.e., women remaining underrepresented in advanced academic roles, often links to the adverse impact of parenthood on women's careers compared to men's.
Antonia Velicu +4 more
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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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The association between religious homogamy and reproduction [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016 Individuals more strongly affiliated to religion have on average more children than less religious ones. Here, based on census data of 3 658 650 women aged 46–60 years from 32 countries provided by IPUMS International and data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (n= 2400 women, aged 53–57 years), we show that religious homogamy is also associated ...
Martin Fieder, Susanne Huber
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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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Hybridity of mainly asexually propagating duckweeds in genus Lemna – dead end or breakthrough? [PDF]
New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 1, Page 629-647, April 2026.Summary The cosmopolitan, mainly vegetatively propagating, organ‐reduced monocotyledonous aquatic duckweeds are the smallest and fastest growing angiosperms, distributed world‐wide and flower rarely in nature. Recently, we reported intra‐ and interspecific hybrids and ploidy variants in the genus Lemna.
Yuri Lee +10 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 ...
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Revista Latinoamericana de Población, 2017 This article focuses on the following question: How would interracial marriage rates change when considering the racial distribution of the local marriage market? I used data from the Brazilian Census for the years 1991 and 2000 and loglinear models. The
Maria Carolina Tomás
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