This paper presents an economic analysis of the intergenerational transmission of ethnic and religious traits through family socialization and marital segregation decisions. Frequency of intragroup marriage (homogamy), as well as socialization rates of religious and ethnic groups, depend on the group’s share of the population: minority groups search more intensely for homogamous mates, and spen...

The paper presents both the institutional background and the government philosophy regarding equality and non-prejudice within all of the territories under Portuguese sovereignty in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as tests carried out to discover if the decision to marry and racial homogamy could be considered independent variables, using annual data from statistical yearbooks relating to the colo...

By integrating the complementary needs theory of mate selection and notion assets into research family business, we propose that three components spousal capital complement each other. We elaborate on how homogamy heterogamy in terms various socioeconomic psychological factors can affect business performance through its impact marital conflict—an individual-level lens. The empirical analysis qu...

We use Demographic and Health Survey data to undertake the largest ever examination into causes of inter-ethnic marriage in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa document a number novel findings. First, we show that rates are high, at 19.4% on average, vary significantly across countries rising over time. Second, individual variables associated with modernization such as urbanization, literacy/educat...