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Positive Assortative Mating

Positive Assortative Mating is a form of nonrandom mating in which individuals preferentially select partners who are phenotypically or genotypically similar to themselves with respect to specific traits, thereby increasing the correlation between mates for those characteristics.

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Variants

Homogamy

Parents

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Five Decades of Educational Assortative Mating

Robert D. Mare · American Sociological Review · 1991 · 1.2K citations

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Beyond global sociosexual orientations: A more differentiated look at sociosexuality and its effects on courtship and romantic relationships.

Lars Penke, Jens B. Asendorpf · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2008 · 1.1K citations

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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov et al. · American Economic Review · 2014 · 397 citations

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Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

Matthew R. Robinson, Aaron Kleinman, Mariaelisa Graff et al. · Nature Human Behaviour · 2017 · 368 citations

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Marriage Markets and Assortative Mating with Household Public Goods: Theoretical Results and Empirical Implications

David Lam · The Journal of Human Resources · 1988 · 340 citations

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Authors

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  1. NG
    Nezih Guner

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    8 publications · 786 citations

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  2. CS
    Cezar Santos

    Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças, Brazil

    6 publications · 667 citations

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  3. GK
    Georgi Kocharkov

    Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany

    6 publications · 667 citations

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  4. JG
    Jeremy Greenwood

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    6 publications · 667 citations

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  5. JP
    John P. Rice

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    5 publications · 557 citations

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Institutions

588

  1. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    203 citations

  2. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    8 h-index

    29 publications

    3.8K citations

  3. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    475 citations

  4. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    1.2K citations

  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    18 publications

    2.7K citations

  7. Barcelona School of Economics

    Barcelona, Spain

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    460 citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    1.7K citations

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  1. Evolution

    29 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. Behavior Genetics

    15 publications · 969 citations

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  3. PubMed

    Repository · 11 publications · 776 citations

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 11 publications · 261 citations

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  5. Heredity

    9 publications · 354 citations

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