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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
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The social significance of homogamy [PDF]
, 2008 It is a long-standing principle in anthropology, sociology but also economics, that there are strong social and material incentives for people to marry or partner on the basis of social similarity, thus encouraging equality within partnerships but social
Brynin, Malcolm +2 more
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Educational homogamy in Norway: Trends and patterns [PDF]
, 2000 This paper focuses on trends and patterns in educational homogamy over time. A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of homogamy in Norway.
Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth, Heldal, Johan
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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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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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Meeting online or offline? Patterns and trends for co-resident couples in early 21st century Britain [PDF]
, 2020 Data from the 2010-12 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL-3) are used to document trends and patterns in where co-resident couples in Britain first met, focusing specifically on the rapid rise of meeting online, which both echoes ...
Lampard, Richard
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Educational homogamy lowers the odds of reproductive failure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Assortative mating based on education is a common phenomenon. We investigated whether it affected parameters of reproductive performance such as childlessness, offspring number and age at first marriage.
Susanne Huber, Martin Fieder
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Religions, 2021 In Ghana, collectivism holds people together in marital relationships, even if partners are religiously different. Married partners still hurt, betray, or offend each other and might develop avoidance or vengeful (i.e., unforgiving) motives.
Annabella Osei-Tutu +5 more
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The Effect of Assortative Mating on Wealth Inequality, why do the Rich Choose the Rich? [PDF]
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2023 This paper unravels the effect of assortative mating on wealth inequality. In light of the reviewed literature, it is concluded that there is a significant effect of assortative mating on wealth inequality, it is mainly driven by similarity in background
Arabela ICHIM +3 more
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Does individual educational attainment affect educational homogamy?—Evidence from CGSS
International Studies of Economics, 2022 Family is the basic unit that constitutes social relations, and marriage‐matching determines the development trajectory of a household. Education has become one of the most important ingredients of marriage in modern society, and the proportion of ...
Congjia Huo, Lingming Chen
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