Patterns of Racial and Educational Assortative Mating in Brazil

Patterns of racial and educational assortative mating in Brazil.

Exchange of racial for educational status has been documented for black/white marriages in the United States. Exchange may be an idiosyncratic feature of U.S. society, resulting from unusually strong racial boundaries historically developed there. We examine status exchange across racial lines in Brazil. In contrast to the United States, Brazil features greater fluidity of racial boundaries and...

Educational Assortative Mating in Two Generations:

Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain

This article analyses patterns and trends in the educational assortative mating of 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; ii) crossing barriers across educational thresholds and iii) degree of symmetry between male and fema...

Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults.

Understanding the social and biological mechanisms that lead to homogamy (similar individuals marrying one another) has been a long-standing issue across many fields of scientific inquiry. Using a nationally representative sample of non-Hispanic white US adults from the Health and Retirement Study and information from 1.7 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms, we compare genetic similarity am...

No decline in assortative mating for educational level.

Education data from the Norwegian twin panel reveal no decline in the marital correlation for educational attainment for the past 35 years. Comparable marital correlations are foundfor British and American samples. A higher marital correlation is obtainedfor the parents of the Norwegian twins and the parents of their spouses, but this is an artifact. A twin's recall of his/her parents' educatio...