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This article focuses on the following question: How would interracial marriage rates change when considering the racial distribution of the local marriage market? I used data from the Brazilian Census for the years 1991 and 2000 and loglinear models. The
Maria Carolina Tomás
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Beyond the local marriage market [PDF]
This study examines whether the increase of geographical heterogamy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is related to modernization. Specifically, we test whether mass communication and mass transport enhanced the likelihood of a geographically heterogamous marriage as well as the distance over which heterogamous marriages took place ...
Ineke Maas, Richard Zijdeman
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Modeling Local Variations in Intermarriage
We utilized all Spanish marriage records available at the municipality level from 2005–2007 to model spatial variations in intermarriage. We constructed a spatial regime zero-inflated Poisson model and grouped-data probit model, with spatially lagged ...
Albert Esteve +2 more
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Women in Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Poetry
Women have been victims of gender ideology which, according to Hussein (2005), is a systemic set of cultural beliefs through which a society constructs and wields its gender relations and practices.
Abidemi Bolarinwa
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The migration flows connecting Thailand and Europe have constructed social spaces in which different stereotypes regarding Thais and Europeans emerge, perpetuate, and circulate, thereby affecting to various extents the lives of these individuals.
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Sirijit Sunanta
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Divergent Pathways to Assimilation? Local Marriage Markets and Intermarriage Among U.S. Hispanics [PDF]
AbstractThe growing diversity of the U.S. population raises questions about integration among America's fastest growing minority population—Hispanics. The canonical view is that intermarriage with the native‐born White population represents a pathway to assimilation that varies over geographic space in response to uneven marital opportunities.
Zhenchao, Qian +2 more
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Divine Proportion of The Invisible Hand: a New Look at Adam Smith’s Natural Theology
Recent research on labor-search-leisure model has described local multiple equilibria of Invisible hand under wage and price dispersion.
Sergey Malakhov
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Marketing of Moa buffalo at farm level in Maluku Province, Indonesia
Buffalo Moa is Indonesia's local livestock which is potentially maintained by the community on Moa Island as a source of family income and nutrition. This study aims to examine the marketing system, selling prices and factors that influence the price of ...
Jomima Martha Tatipikalawan +3 more
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When investment backfires: Unbalanced sex ratios and mental health among boys in rural areas
Background: In China, a key feature of demographic transition is the abnormally high sex ratio, resulting in a shortage of brides. In addition, depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents have risen sharply in the last decade, and among these ...
Hantao Wu, Ting Li
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The willingness of returning migrant workers to purchase houses has an important impact on local urbanization. At present, there are few researches on the willingness of returning migrant workers to purchase houses.
Wang Yuchan +5 more
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