ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015
Assortative mating without assortative preference.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 17 papers.
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- A New Methodological Framework for Studying Status Exchange in Marriage.AJS; American journal of sociology · 2021Article
- Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Structure of Online Dating Markets in U.S. Cities.Sociological science · 2019Article
- Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets.Science advances · 2018Article
- Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Origin and Education in the United States.Sociological science · 2016Article
- Social inheritance can explain the structure of animal social networks.Nature communications · 2016Article
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Abstract
Assortative mating--marriage of a man and a woman with similar social characteristics--is a commonly observed phenomenon. In the existing literature in both sociology and economics, this phenomenon has mainly been attributed to individuals' conscious preferences for assortative mating. In this paper, we show that patterns of assortative mating may arise from another structural source even if individuals do not have assortative preferences or possess complementary attributes: dynamic processes of marriages in a closed system. For a given cohort of youth in a finite population, as the percentage of married persons increases, unmarried persons who newly enter marriage are systematically different from those who married earlier, giving rise to the phenomenon of assortative mating. We use microsimulation methods to illustrate this dynamic process, using first the conventional deterministic Gale-Shapley model, then a probabilistic Gale-Shapley model, and then two versions of the encounter mating model.
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