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Religious Heterogamy, Marital Quality, and Paternal Engagement
, 2019 Using data from a nationally representative sample of married fathers of school-aged children, we examined the association between religious heterogamy of parents and fathers’ involvement in children’s lives.
Kim, Young-Il, Swan, Isaak
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Editorial on the Special Issue “Changes in Educational Homogamy and Its Consequences”
Comparative Population StudiesRecent 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 +2 more
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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
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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 +2 more
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Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
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Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Tertiary Education in Europe
Comparative Population StudiesIn 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 +2 more
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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
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Occupational Licensing, Intergenerational Occupational Persistence and Social Mobility
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the relationship between occupational regulation and intergenerational occupational persistence. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2024), we find that individuals are significantly more likely to enter a licensed occupation if a parent also worked in one, with the effect strongest in occupations where regulatory hurdles ...
Maria Koumenta, Mark Williams
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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 +4 more
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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 +1 more
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