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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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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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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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Couples’ places of meeting in late 20th century Britain: class, continuity and change [PDF]
, 2007 This article examines couples’ places or contexts of meeting in the second half of the 20th century in Great Britain, utilizing a typology developed by Bozon and Héran.
Lampard, Richard
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Are men intimidated by highly educated women? Undercover on Tinder [PDF]
, 2019 In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success on the mobile dating app Tinder. To do so, we conducted a field experiment on Tinder in which we collected data on 3,600 profile evaluations.
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Gender roles and domestic power in energy-saving home improvements
Buildings & Cities, 2022 The importance of considering gender aspects in studies on residential energy consumption has been acknowledged. However, an important topic is still ignored in gender and energy transitions research: domestic power for men and women differs depending on
Françoise Bartiaux
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More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Falcon Julie, Joye Dominique
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Studying Online Behavior: Comment on Anderson et al. 2014 [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2015 As social scientists increasingly employ data from online sources, it is important that we acknowledge both the advantages an limitations of this research. The latter have received comparatively little public attention.
Kevin Lewis
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Journal of Family Theory & Review, 2011 I propose that homogamy and heterogamy be used to signify same-sex and opposite-sex unions respectively, including marriage and cohabitation. This is intended to address a terminology impasse that has given us “marriage” versus “same-sex marriage” in popular as well as academic usage. After a brief review of the word origins and scholarly uses of these
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Comparative Population StudiesThe extent of educational homogamy has important consequences for social inequalities and social cohesion. However, little is known about current trends, cross-national differences, and the drivers of educational homogamy in Europe.
Wilfred Uunk
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