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Marriage Preference

Marriage Preference is a sociocultural construct within marriage systems that specifies the criteria or rules guiding individual or societal choices in selecting a marital partner, distinguishing it from broader marital structures by focusing on evaluative tendencies and normative inclinations in mate selection.

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304

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180

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2017–2026

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Variants

Marital Preference

Parents

Publications

177

Stable marriage and indifference

Robert W. Irving · Discrete Applied Mathematics · 1994 · 286 citations

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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak et al. · American Economic Journal Microeconomics · 2013 · 243 citations

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COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS OF REASONS FOR PREFERENCE FOR CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES IN PAKISTAN

Rafat Hussain · Journal of Biosocial Science · 1999 · 198 citations

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Physical attractiveness and marital choice.

Bernard I. Murstein · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1972 · 197 citations

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The Effect of Attitudes and Economic Activity on Marriage

Sharon Sassler, Robert Schoen · Journal of Marriage and the Family · 1999 · 172 citations

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Authors

304

  1. RS
    Robert Schoen

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    4 publications · 319 citations

    4

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  2. AE
    Anthony E. O. King

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    3 publications · 89 citations

    3

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  3. JL
    Jeanne Lafortune

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

    3 publications · 417 citations

    3

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  4. GS
    Gillian Stevens

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    3 publications · 171 citations

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  5. MG
    Maitreesh Ghatak

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 417 citations

    3

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Institutions

180

  1. Brunel University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    212 citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    117 citations

  3. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    484 citations

  4. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    119 citations

  5. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    699 citations

  6. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

    The Hague, Netherlands

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    93 citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    110 citations

  8. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    99 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Marriage and the Family

    21 publications · 1.2K citations

    18

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  2. Psychological Reports

    7 publications · 120 citations

    7

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 5 publications · 155 citations

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  4. Journal of Black Studies

    4 publications · 143 citations

    4

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  5. American Sociological Review

    ASR · 4 publications · 246 citations

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