منابع مشابه
Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth
The extent of marital sorting by socio-economic background has implications for the intergenerational transmission of inequality, the role of marriage as a mechanism for social mobility, and the extent of cross-group interactions within a society. However, studies of assortative mating have disproportionately focused on spouses’ education, rather than their social origins. Using data from the P...
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The extent of marital sorting by socioeconomic background has implications for the intergenerational transmission of inequality, the role of marriage as a mechanism for social mobility, and the extent of cross-group interactions within a society. However, studies of assortative mating have disproportionately focused on spouses' education, rather than their social origins. Using data from the Pa...
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BACKGROUND Who marries whom has important implications for the (re-)production of social inequalities. Whereas previous studies on marital sorting have mainly focused on the husband’s and the wife’s traits, in this research I assess the importance of parental background in marital sorting in contemporary China in light of the tradition of marriage of matching doors. METHODS Drawing on data from...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0144-6