On 22 May 2015, the 'Marriage Equality Referendum'in Ireland showed clear support for the
recognition of marriage as a contract between two individuals irrespective of their sex, with …

Measurement error in polygenic indices (PGIs) attenuates the estimation of their effects in
regression models. We analyze and compare two approaches addressing this attenuation …

Recent social and economic trends in the United States, including increasing economic
inequality, women's growing educational advantage, and the rise of online dating, have …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undergoing rapid transformations in the realm of union
formation in tandem with significant educational expansion and rising labor force …

Guided by attachment theory and the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation model, we used three-
annual-wave, dyadic data from a nationally representative sample of 1136 young-adult …

The growing economic similarity of spouses has contributed to rising income inequality
across households. Explanations have typically centered on assortative mating, but recent …

Existing literature shows that on average and across countries, men have higher levels of
wealth than women. However, very little is known about the gender-specific wealth gap …

* Address correspondence to Christine Schwartz; e-mail: cschwart@ ssc. wisc. edu. This
research was carried out using the facilities of the Center for Demography and Ecology at …

Abstract Employing Irish Census microdata, we analyze trends in educational homogamy
and heterogamy between 1991 and 2016 and examine how they can be explained by …

Two broad forces shape the patterns of marital sorting by education: structural constraints
and assortative mating. However, we lack specific and comparative quantification of the …