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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, 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
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Parental Loss in Early Years and Adult Family Formation: Evidence From U.S. Cohorts Born 1850–1910

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This paper examines the long‐term impact of parental loss in early years on family formation as adults in U.S. cohorts born between 1850 and 1910, focusing on age assortative mating and the timing of first childbirth. Background Early parental loss can profoundly shape children's adult family formation trajectories.
Giulia Corti, Saverio Minardi
wiley   +1 more source

Preference for Male Facial Masculinity as a Function of Mental Rotation Ability in Gay and Bisexual Men, but Not in Heterosexual Men and Women in China

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
This study examined the association between mental rotation ability and facial masculinity preference in gay and bisexual men in China. The participants (436 gay/bisexual men, 132 heterosexual men, and 254 heterosexual women) completed an online Shepard ...
Lijun Zheng
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Gender differences in mate selection criteria among university students in Bangladesh: A study from the social homogamy perspective

Heliyon, 2021
Gender differences in mate selection criteria across cultures are common. In various cross-cultural research, these gender differences are explained by different socio-cultural theories.
Md. Nurul Islam
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A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and ...
Young‐Joo Lee, David P. King
wiley   +1 more source

The stochastic encounter-mating model

, 2016
We propose a new model of permanent monogamous pair formation in zoological populations with multiple types of females and males. According to this model, animals randomly encounter members of the opposite sex at their so-called firing times to form ...
Gün, Onur, Yilmaz, Atilla
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Socio-economic homogamy and its effects on the stability of cohabiting unions

Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2015
The tendency towards socio-economic homogamy – partner similarity in terms of socio-economic status – is of great interest to social scientists, for two reasons.
Elina Mäenpää
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Children on Maternal Employment: Evidence From East and West Germany

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 339-358, April 2026.
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

Examination of acculturation processes in Vojvodina based on mixed marriages [PDF]

Sociološki Pregled, 2008
This paper analyzes ethnically mixed marriages contracted in the territory of Vojvodina, Serbia, between 1956 and 2004. Acculturation is examined based on heterogeneous marriages between Serbs, Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians, Montenegrins and Croats. The
Sokolovska Valentina
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