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Educational homogamy reflects the degree to which individuals with the same level of education tend to marry each other. Education being the most important source of individual earnings, educational homogamy is one of the key aspects of contemporary societies: for any given structure of individual earnings, the higher the educational homogamy, the higher the level of income inequality between families.
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Goux, D., Maurin, E. (2003). Who Marries Whom In France?. In: Blossfeld, HP., Timm, A. (eds) Who Marries Whom?. European Studies of Population, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1065-8_4
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