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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, Bodine M. A. Gonggrijp, Karri Silventoinen, Karri Silventoinen, Conor V. Dolan, Dorret I. Boomsma, Dorret I. Boomsma, Jaakko Kaprio, Gonneke Willemsen, Gonneke Willemsen   +9 more
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Does love in the ivory tower fix the leaky pipeline? How academia's homogamous relationships shape careers. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The 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, Manon Fauvelais, Julia Jerke, Heiko Rauhut, Bruno Lemaitre   +4 more
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Understanding indirect assortative mating and its intergenerational consequences for educational attainment [PDF]

Nature Communications
We 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, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Fartein Ask Torvik   +2 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, Alexander Schahbasi, Susanne Huber, Martin Fieder, Martin Fieder   +4 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, Berkay Özcan, Magdalena Rossetti-Youlton   +2 more
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Mechanisms creating homogamy in depressiveness in couples: A longitudinal study from Czechia [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Couples 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, Jakub Fořt, Peter K. Jonason, Jan Havlíček, Jakub Binter, Zuzana Štěrbová   +5 more
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Space and Interracial Marriage: How Does the Racial Distribution of a Local Marriage Market Change the Analysis of Interracial Marriage in Brazil?

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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Differences in occupational homogamy by race, ethnicity, and national origin: A social mobility strategy for Asian Americans

Demographic Research, 2023
Background: Rising median age at marriage and increasing lifestyle differentials across occupations suggest that occupations increasingly offer important signals of the economic and cultural resources of potential spouses.
Kate Choi, Yue Qian
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Trends in the association between educational assortative mating, infant and child mortality in Nigeria

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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Higher Education and the Marriage Market: Educational Attainment, Educational Homogamy, and Inequality

Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine if educational homogamy patterns are associated intergenerationally, the extent to which today’s couples are homogamous, and how this translates into levels of family income and financial and overall well-being.
Lesley Andres
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