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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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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).
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
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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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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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Ethnic Homogamy in Slovakia between 1992 and 2012
Sociologický Časopis, 2016 This article is concerned with ethnic homogamy in Slovakia. The authors set out from the assumption that ethnic homogamy is an indicator of the degree of ethnic tolerance and multiculturalism in society.
Laura Fónadová, Tomáš Katrňák
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Homogamy in socio-economic background and education, and the dissolution of cohabiting unions
Demographic Research, 2014 Background: Despite the increasing prevalence of cohabitation, knowledge of how socio-economic homogamy affects the stability of cohabiting unions is scant.
Elina Mäenpää, Marika Jalovaara
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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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Homogamy and Redefining Economic Role of Women in Family: A Study in Eslamabad-e Gharb City, Iran [PDF]
تداوم و تغییر اجتماعیBackground and Aim: In recent decades, the enhancement of women's economic and social capital has led to their increased empowerment within Iranian society and familial life.
Vakil Ahmadi +2 more
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Gifteklare nordmenns hypergame partnerpreferanser
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 2023 Sammendrag Begrepet hypergami brukes i antropologien for å betegne hvordan kvinner tradisjonelt gifter seg opp i sosial status. Senere har begrepet også blitt brukt innen evolusjonspsykologi for å forklare asymmetriske og symmetriske partnervalg ...
Lene Pettersen, Runar Døving
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