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Who marries whom? Educational homogamy in Norway

Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth; Heldal, Johan - In: Demographic Research 8 (2003) 1, pp. 1-30

A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited time period. This study is based on a sample of 129 651 individuals from...

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Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain

Palós, Albert Esteve; Cortina, Clara - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 17, pp. 405-428

This article analyses patterns and trends in educational assortative mating of the Spanish women born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. By means of loglinear models we examine the following issues: i) intensity and changes in educational assortative mating patterns;...

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Assortative matching among same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States, 1990-2000

Schwartz, Christine; Graf, Nikki - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 28, pp. 843-878

Same-sex couples are less likely to be homogamous than different-sex couples on a variety of characteristics, including race/ethnicity, age, and education. This study confirms results from previous studies using 1990 U.S. census data and extends previous analyses to examine changes from 1990 to...

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Dispensing with marriage: Marital and partnership trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000-2006

Hosegood, Victoria; McGrath, Nuala; Moultrie, Tom - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 13, pp. 279-312

This paper describes marriage and partnership patterns and trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from 2000 …. We consider whether the high rates of non-marriage among Africans in South Africa reported in the 1980s were reversed … following the political transformation underway by the 1990s. Our findings show that marriage has continued to decline with a …

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Menâ€™s economic status and marital transitions of fragile families

Sassler, Sharon; Roy, Soma; Stasny, Elizabeth - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 3, pp. 71-110

between menâ€™s earnings and the likelihood of marriage. Standard predictors of marriage for the overall population apply less … characteristics, and how such expectations shaped subsequent entry into marriage. Data are from unmarried couples in the Fragile …. Womenâ€™s expectations for marriage to the father of their child are high regardless of their partnerâ€™s economic …

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When the group encourages extramarital sex

Coma, Julia Cordero - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 30, pp. 849-880

Understanding the determinants of menâ€™s extramarital sexual relations, which account for a relevant share of concurrent sexual partnerships, is an important research subject. This article focuses on examining how married menâ€™s behavior is influenced by the fidelity norm. Using...

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Educational Differences in Divorce in Japan

Raymo, James M.; Fukuda, Setsuya; Iwasawa, Miho - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 6, pp. 177-206

Contrary to standard theoretical predictions, there is some evidence of a negative educational gradient in divorce in Japan. In this paper, we used marital history data from a cross-sectional survey to confirm that educational attainment is inversely related to divorce and to show that, in...

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The link between parenthood and partnership in contemporary Norway - Findings from focus group research

Lappegård, Trude; Noack, Turid - In: Demographic Research 32 (2015) 9, pp. 287-310

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Trust, responsibility, and freedom: Focus-group research on contemporary patterns of union formation in Russia

Isupova, Olga - In: Demographic Research 32 (2015) 11, pp. 341-368

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Two period measures for comparing the fertility of marriage and cohabitation

Laplante, Benoît; Fostik, Ana Laura - In: Demographic Research 32 (2015) 14, pp. 421-442

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