We examine how the association between the educational levels of husbands and wives
has changed in Korea over a period of seven decades, which cover all the important periods …

Educational assortative mating has attracted scholarly attention for its significance in
mirroring social stratification. Theoretical explanations and empirical hypotheses regarding …

The existing results for Japan on the trends in educational assortative mating are mixed
largely due to data constraints. This study describes the trends in educational assortative …

This book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and
potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider …

This paper investigates the trend in assortative marriage with respect to education among a
large Korean cohort born in the 1930s to the 1970s. The two-percent sample data from the …

This study is the first systematic attempt to distinguish the pattern of educational assortative
mating between married and unmarried couples in Japan. As far as we know, none of the …

Who marries whom and what consequences arise from these marriages can be explored by
using various sociodemographic characteristics, such as age and occupation. In particular …

Literature suggests that both education expansion and women's participation in labor market
have reshaped people's choice of partners in modern societies (Sweeney and Cancian …

The existing results for Japan on the general trends in educational assortative mating are
mixed largely due to data constraints. This study aims to describe the trends in educational …

As a proverb says, birds of a feather flock together. Homophily is the social fact that people
tend to associate with those who have similar attributes to themselves (McPherson et al …