Toward a formal sociological model of partner search
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19230643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Wu (0000-0003-2301-5136, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 138 |
| Pages | 103356 |
| Publication date | 2026-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-089X • E-ISSN: 1096-0317 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103356 |
| OpenAlex | W7164528143 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
Poison control · Sociological research · Sociological theory · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Social Power and Status Dynamics
Disintermediating your friends
The second demographic transition
Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting
When choice is demotivating
Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor
Could We Level the Playing Field? Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives, Nonmarital Fertility, and Poverty in the United States
Structure of Online Dating Markets in U.S. Cities
Hazard Versus Linear Probability Difference-in-Differences Estimators for Demographic Processes
Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Separate Spheres Bargaining and the Marriage Market
A Theory of Marriage
Job Matching and the Theory of Turnover
A dynamic systems model of dyadic interaction
Trends and Variation in Assortative Mating
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
Rational Choice and the TSL Model of Occupational Opportunity
Does Marriage Matter
Changes in American Marriage, 1972 to 1987
Marriage and Divorce
Five Decades of Educational Assortative Mating
Searching for a Mate
The Gendered Double Standard of Aging in US Marriage Markets
Women's Employment and the Gain to Marriage
Educational Assortative Marriage in Comparative Perspective
Changing Patterns of Interracial Marriage in a Multiracial Society
A Half Century of Mate Preferences
The deinstitutionalization of American marriage
Educational Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in the United States
Opportunity and Choice in Socially Structured Labor Markets
Assortative Mating by Cultural and Economic Occupational Status
Matching
The Association between Husbands' and Wives' Occupations in Two-Earner Families
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |