This paper reports trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 in the United States. Analyses of census and Current Population Survey data show that educational homogamy decreased from 1940 to 1960 but increased from 1960 to 2003. From 1960 to the early 1970s, increases in educational homogamy were generated by decreasing intermarriage among groups of relatively well-educated p...

Increased mortality following the death of a spouse (the "widowhood effect") may be due to (1) causation, (2) bias from spousal similarity (homogamy), or (3) bias from shared environmental exposures. This article proposes new tests for bias in the widowhood effect by examining husbands, wives, and ex-wives in a longitudinal sample of over 1 million elderly Americans. If the death of an ex-wife ...

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. In humans, absolute clues of fertility and indices of favorable developmental stability are generally associated with increased women's attractiveness. However, why me...

Data from a representative sample of 1,070 married Protestants and Catholics were used to examine the relationship between religious homogamy and marital happiness. Although couples may vary in the extent to which they share religious views (e.g., beliefs, values), previous research has treated religious homogamy as a dichotomy; a couple is either homogamous or it is not. A partial explanation ...

This research examines trends in educational assortative marriage in China among first marriages from 1970 to 2000, using data from the 2000 China Population Census and the 2001 Chinese Demographic Reproductive Health Survey. The results reveal decreasing educational homogamy rates from 1970 to 1980. However, the estimated odds of educational homogamy increase substantially between 1980 and 199...

Individuals more strongly affiliated to religion have on average more children than less religious ones. Here, based on census data of 3 658 650 women aged 46-60 years from 32 countries provided by IPUMS International and data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (n = 2400 women, aged 53-57 years), we show that religious homogamy is also associated with higher reproduction in terms of a higher...

3 Introduction 4 Literature Review 5 The Gender Gap in Post-Secondary Education 5 Women and Education 7 Homogamy and Education 9 Data 14 Methods 26 Results 28 Discussion 32 Conclusion 35 Appendix 1: Supplementary Descriptive Statistics 38 Appendix 2: Supplementary Geographic Descriptive Statistics 40 Works Cited 45

This article deals with the emergence of a specific mating preference pattern called homogamy in population. Individuals are characterized by their genotype at two haploid loci, and population dynamics is modelled non-linear birth-and-death process. The first locus codes for phenotype, while second defined respect to locus: individuals more (resp. less) likely reproduce each other if they carry...