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This paper makes use of data collected from military registers and marriage certificates for the population of Alghero, in Sardinia, for the period 1866-1925, with the aim of investigating the role played by physical characteristics and health in the possibility of social mobility through marriage. Our findings demonstrate that, whereas physical defects and ill health had little impact on the chances of marrying an illiterate woman, these factors did have a negative effect on the chances of marrying a woman who was literate. In a context in which intergenerational social mobility remained limited and the family had the final say on marriage arrangements, it is likely that only healthy individuals were selected for marriages regarded as strategic for the purposes of forming and strengthening family alliances, and/or improving the social position within the community.

We construct a model of household decision-making in which agents consume a private and a public good, interpreted as children's welfare. Children's utility depends on their human capital, which depends on the time their parents spend with them and on the parents' human capital. We first show that as returns to human capital increase, couples at the top of the income distribution should spend more time with their children. This in turn should reinforce assortative matching, in a sense that we precisely define. We then embed the model into a transferable utility matching framework with random preferences, à la Choo and Siow (2006), which we estimate using US marriage data for individuals born between 1943 and 1972. We find that the preference for partners of the same education has significantly increased for white individuals, particularly for the highly educated. We find no evidence of such an increase for black individuals. Moreover, in line with theoretical predictions, we find that the "marital college-plus premium" has increased for women but not for men. (JEL D12, J12, J13, J15, J24)

Several studies have shown that immigrants marrying natives experience better economic outcomes than those marrying other immigrants, but we know less about partner choice and the economic outcomes of the children of immigrants and among those forming cohabiting unions. Utilizing Norwegian register data from all cohabiting and marital unions formed between 2006 and 2018 involving second-generation and childhood immigrants ( N = 49,692 couples, 65% cohabiting), we explored how partner choice relates to employment status, individual income, and household income for up to 14 years after union formation. Overall, children of immigrants with native partners were more frequently employed and earned higher incomes than those who chose partners from migrant-backgrounds. Fixed effects model results confirmed that children of immigrants who partnered endogamously experienced less favorable employment and individual income trajectories compared to those partnering with natives. We discovered similar negative impacts on the likelihood of employment and on the individual incomes of men who partnered exogamously with migrant-background women. However, when ignoring initial selection and shifting focus solely to changes post-union formation, we found that partnering endogamously had a positive effect on household income. In general, we observed the strongest effects among women and those married, and we noticed important differences across global regions of origin.

The mechanisms of exogamy and endogamy among immigrants are considered
important indicators of social integration in the host society. The goal of
this paper is to analyze the patterns of union formation among ex-Yugoslav of
the first and second generation in Sweden. The study analyzes both marriages
and non-marital childbearing unions. The longitudinal data (1990-2012) stem
from the STAR compilation of the Swedish register data. The data cover the
entire population residing in Sweden. The main analysis is based on
discrete-time multinomial logistic regression. The results show that the
length of stay in Sweden is positively associated with the likelihood of a
union with a native Swedish person and negatively associated with the
likelihood of an endogamous partner choice. A stronger exposure to
ex-Yugoslav immigrants (measured as the share of ex-Yugoslavs in the
municipality) implies a higher likelihood of endogamous union and a lower
likelihood of a union with a native. University educated ex-Yugoslavs are the
most likely to enter a union with a native, with the association being more
pronounced among women. The patterns of intermarriage among ex-Yugoslavs
largely resemble those identified in previous studies on native-immigrants
marriages in Europe. One exception is that the propensity for endogamy is
somewhat more pronounced among women. In order to obtain a more finegrained
picture of the causal mechanisms behind the results reported in this study,
it will be necessary to conduct additional research, combining quantitative
and qualitative methods.

AbstractThree studies were conducted to assess the role of attachment style in partner selection using both correlational and experimental methods. Study 1 (n = 83 couples) assessed correlations between partner ratings on attachment‐style dimensions and the relations between own and partner attachment style and relationship satisfaction. In Study 2 (n = 226) and Study 3 (n = 146), participants who varied in terms of attachment style rated the desirability of potential partners who also differed in terms of attachment style. Results of all three studies generally suggested that individuals were most attracted to partners with similar attachment styles. For example, anxious individuals tended to be dating anxious partners in Study 1, and they preferred anxious partners over secure and avoidant partners in Studies 2 and 3 (combined data). Thus, not all individuals preferred secure partners. Second, unlike previous studies that looked primarily at partner correlations, there was no evidence of anxious/avoidant matching. In fact, anxious individuals seemed particularly averse to avoidant partners. Finally, ratings of parental caregiving styles (especially ratings of mothers) were associated with adult attachment dimensions and partner choices. For example, individuals who rated their mothers as more cold and ambivalent were less attracted to secure partners. Clinical and research implications are discussed.

SummaryDo girls fall in love with an image of their father? This study tested the hypothesis that, in choosing a partner, people tend to replicate the physical and mental attributes of their opposite-sex parent more than of the same-sex parent. A sample of 314 women, mostly in their late teens and describing themselves as 'in love', supplied details of their boyfriends and parents. A tendency for the boyfriend's eye colour to match that of the father more than of the mother was found, as well as a tendency for girls to replicate the age and dominance relationships of the parental partnership in their own relationship. These effects were very small and of marginal significance.

1. Introduction -- 2. A framework for the study of social integration: the nexus of religion, parental influences and partner choice -- 3. An overview of partner choices among Muslim migrants and natives in Western Europe -- 4. Intraethnic marriage among immigrant children in Western Europe : transnational spouse of co-ethnic spouse? -- 5. Intermarriage attitudes among minority and majority groups in Western Europe : the role of attachment to the family, religious in-group and perceived distance -- 6. The intergenerational transmission of intermarriage attitudes and interethnic contact : the role of Turkish migrant parents -- 7. Attitudes towards intergroup dating among youth in Brussels: more evidence for the role of parents? -- 8. Conclusion.