Marital homogamy in the United States: the influence of individual and paternal education
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Marital homogamy in the US is influenced by individual and paternal education. Homogamy is an observed condition in which persons with similar characteristics and attitudes tend to marry one another. It has been found out that people with higher paternal education and acquired education tend to look for people with similar educational attainment. However, women do not seem to look for paternal education in their prospective partners in the same degree as husbands look for it in their spouses.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 1998
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Assortative mating after divorce: a test of two competing hypotheses using marginal models
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Data collected from 927 married men and women is analyzed to examine the association between spouses' educational attainment, social class, and age in their first and current union. It is concluded that the remarrying men might find a more educationally homogamous partner than their first partner. The greater age heterogeneity of available spouses is an important determinant of weaker age homogamy in the remarriage market.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2004
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Personality, social background, and occupational career success
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The extent to which personality factors are directly related to aspects of career transitions, income attainment and parental social background is examined. It is concluded that personality characteristics contribute importantly to earnings and status attainment in addition to sociological variables.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2006
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