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Educational heterogamy during the early phase of the educational expansion: Results from the university town of Tartu, Estonia in the late 19th century

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: From a historical perspective, the transition from a pre-industrial to a modern society is associated with increasing social status heterogamy.
Martin Klesment, Hannaliis Jaadla, Mark Gortfelder   +2 more
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Men's preference for women's facial features: testing homogamy and the paternity uncertainty hypothesis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Male mate choice might be based on both absolute and relative strategies. Cues of female attractiveness are thus likely to reflect both fitness and reproductive potential, as well as compatibility with particular male phenotypes.
Jeanne Bovet, Julien Barthes, Valérie Durand, Michel Raymond, Alexandra Alvergne   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stability and change in family time transfers and workload inequality in Italian couples [PDF]

, 2019
This paper analyses changes from 2003 to 2014 in the magnitude and directions of time (i.e., non-market) family transfers and in the gender distribution of total work among Italian couples.
De Rose, Alessandra, Zannella, Marina
core   +1 more source

Educational Homogamy and Inter-Couple Income Inequality: Linking Demographic and Socio-Economic Consequences of Educational Expansion in Germany and Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017
How is educational expansion associated with increased educational homogamy and income inequality? Using SOEP and SHP panel data, we randomly match couples and compare the resulting income distribution to the observed one.
Wise Ramsey, Zangger Christoph
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial on the Special Issue “Changes in Educational Homogamy and Its Consequences”

Comparative Population Studies
Recent decades have seen major changes in the educational profiles of the populations of Western industrialised countries, notably a sharp rise in educational attainment and a reversal of the gender gap in education.
Pia Blossfeld, Stefani Scherer, Wilfred Uunk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Heterogeneous Impact of Children on Maternal Employment: Evidence From East and West Germany

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the causal effect of fertility on female labour market outcomes in East and West Germany. We use twin births as an exogenous variation for family size. Our results suggest a negative relationship between the number of children and maternal labour market outcomes.
Johannes Köckeis, Sven Stöwhase
wiley   +1 more source

Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Tertiary Education in Europe

Comparative Population Studies
In this paper, we examine (1) whether parental educational homogamy is associated with children’s tertiary educational attainment in different European countries and (2) whether this association is moderated by families’ educational backgrounds.
Pia Blossfeld, Tomáš Katrňák, Beatrice Chomková Manea   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hybridization, Homogamy, and Sympatric Speciation [PDF]

Evolution, 1955
Mayr (1947) has presented a strong case against the hypothesis of sympatric speciation in the course of supporting the universal hypothesis of geographic (or at least microgeographic) speciation. In the summary (p. 286) of that paper he made the following statement: "It is unproven and unlikely that reproductive isolation can develop between contiguous
openaire   +1 more source

Partners Mirror Each Other's Informal Helping Behavior: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This paper examines to what extent partners' informal helping behaviors are related and to what extent this partner effect differs by gender. Differences in informal help given to kin and non‐kin are explored. Background Although prior research has suggested that partners influence each other's helping behavior, these mostly cross ...
Marlou J. M. Ramaekers, Marieke Voorpostel   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differently Educated US Couples and Their Work‐Family Arrangements, 1968–2023

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This brief report examines how couples' education pairings relate to their work‐family arrangements in the United States from 1968 to 2023, focusing on differently educated couples. Background The reversal of the gender gap in education has increased couples where women have more education than their male partners, with implications ...
Léa Pessin, Federica Querin
wiley   +1 more source