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

While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the
study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have …

Anthropologist Edmund Leach, in his discussion of caste and class systems, stated,“In a very
fundamental way, we all of us distinguish those who are of our kind from those who are not …

Scholars have long been interested in exchange and matching (assortative mating) in
romantic partner selection. But many analyses of exchange, particularly those that examine …

Assortative mating provides an indicator of integration and fragmentation in modern
societies, and of shifting social boundaries between groups. Assortative mating is expressed …

Exchange of racial for educational status has been documented for black/white marriages in
the United States. Exchange may be an idiosyncratic feature of US society, resulting from …

The growth of migrant/native marriages documented in many developed countries is often
regarded as an indicator of immigrants' assimilation into host societies. We argue that a …

The status exchange hypothesis suggests that partners in black/white marriages in the
United States trade racial for educational status, indicating strong hierarchical barriers …

The status-caste exchange thesis has been a theoretical workhorse for the study of racial
intermarriage in the United States since its introduction in the 1940s, and has enjoyed a …

We analyzed personal profiles and records of communication for more than a million
nationwide users of a major online dating site. White more than Black, women more than …