Assortative mating fundamentally shapes the characteristics of families and the reproduction
of populations. It organizes people into families and determines the characteristics of …

This paper reports trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 in the United
States. Analyses of census and Current Population Survey data show that educational …

The authors review demographic trends and research on families in the United States, with
a special focus on the past decade. They consider the following several topics: (a) marriage …

The gender gap in education that has long favored men has reversed for young adults in
almost all high and middle-income countries. In 2010, the proportion of women aged 25-29 with …

Increases in the association between spouses' earnings have the potential to increase
inequality as marriages increasingly consist of two high‐earning or two low‐earning partners. …

The reversal of the gender gap in education has potentially far-reaching consequences for
marriage markets, family formation, and relationship outcomes. One possible consequence is …

Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past, the gender gap in
education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western countries…

Objective. To examine sexual frequency decline among American men and women between
the ages of 44 and 72 born from 1933 to 1948. Method. Using data from the National …

Same-sex couples are less likely to be homogamous than different-sex couples on a variety
of characteristics including race/ethnicity, age, and education. This study confirms results …

There is considerable disagreement about whether cohabitors are more or less likely to be
educationally homogamous than married couples. Using data from the National Longitudinal …