This research on the basic demographic processes and marital migrations of the population on Ugljan Island in the period from 1857 to 2001 was conducted within the context of the long-term anthropological research of the population structure of Croatia's islands. The analysis was based on the study of the origin of 5 244 married couples from Preko, Kali, Kukljica, Lukoran and Ugljan and carried...

Abstract Many years ago, Emmanuel Todd came up with a classification of family types and argued that the historically prevalent in society have important consequences for its economic, political, social development. Here, we evaluate Todd's most predictions empirically. Relying on parsimonious model exogenous covariates, find mixed results. On one hand, authoritarian are, stark contrast to pred...

The population genetic studies on a small sub-tribe of 50 strictly endogamous individuals, i.e., Setharani (tribe Noohani) settled in southern Sindh (Pakistan) suggest a typical allelic frequencies of Rh (D=1.0, d = 0.0) and ABO (A = 0.58, B = 0.05, O = 0.40). This frequency is different from main Noohani tribe, settled in the northern Sindh and other populations of Sindh. The blood groups appe...

Common explanations for the generally negative relationship between education and ethnic endogamy include (1) education makes immigrants and their children better able to adapt to native culture thereby eliminating the need for a same-ethnicity spouse and (2) education raises the likelihood of leaving ethnic enclaves, thereby decreasing the probability of meeting potential same-ethnicity spouse...

Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because individuals with stronger preferences for ethnic endogamy are likely to differ in unobserved ways from those with weaker preferences. To clarify some of the c...

In the last decade, the Costa Rican Central Valley population (CRCV), has received considerable scientific attention, attributed in part to a particularly interesting population structure. Two different and contradictory explanations have emerged: (1) An European-Amerindian-African admixed population, with some regional genetic heterocigosity and moderate degrees of consanguinity, similar to ot...