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Assortative Mating Across the Full Spectrum of Mental Disorders: A Nationwide Finnish Register Study. [PDF]

open access: yesBiol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci
Golovina K   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Educational Homogamy

Journal of Human Resources, 2009
Individuals match on length and type of education. We find that around half of the systematic sorting on education is explained by the tendency of individuals to marry someone who went to the same educational institution or to an institution near them.
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
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Field-of-Study Homogamy

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper reports evidence on the strong tendency of the college educated to match with partners who graduated in the same field of study - a dimension of assortative matching that has been overlooked thus far. We employ Labor Force Survey data covering most EU countries to measure the extent of field-of-study homogamy in prevailing married and ...
Bicakova, Alena, Jurajda, Štepán
openaire   +4 more sources

The “Homogamy” of Road Rage Revisited

Violence and Victims, 2008
The principle of homogamy, the tendency for victims and offenders to share behavioral and demographic characteristics, has been applied to various forms of violent crime. This article explores how this principle relates to types of “road rage” using a survey of 1,208 Australian drivers.
Roberts, Lynne, Indermaur, D.
openaire   +3 more sources

Explaining Spatial Homogamy. Compositional, Spatial and Regional Cultural Determinants of Regional Patterns of Spatial Homogamy in the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2010
Spatial homogamy, or sharing a similarity in geographical origin, is an under-researched dimension in homogamy studies. In the Netherlands, people tend to choose spatially homogamous partners. Moreover, there is considerable regional variation in spatial homogamy, even when residential location and population density are controlled for. This study aims
Karen Haandrikman, Van Wissen Leo J G
exaly   +4 more sources

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