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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. complementarities in household production or portfolio optimization).
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Svarer, Michael
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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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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 inequality in the distribution of education, income, or other characteristics.
Brynin, M, Longhi, S, Mart�nez P�rez
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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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Hybridity of mainly asexually propagating duckweeds in genus Lemna - dead end or breakthrough? [PDF]
New PhytolSummary 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.
Lee Y +10 more
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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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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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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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Educational assortative mating in Italy: what can Gini’s homogamy index still say? [PDF]
, 2015 The homogamy index proposed by Gini is applied to describe the changes occurred in marital choice - across time and regions in Italy. The relevant increase in education by women has provoked an increase in the number of homogamous couples and in an ...
DE ROSE, Alessandra, Fraboni, R.
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