Maximizing Status or Homophily? How Individuals Choose among Socially Distant Partners under Varying Marriage Market Conditions • Audrey N. Beck, Duke University

Mexican Migration and Its Effect on the Union Formation Patterns of Women in Sending Communities • Kate H. Choi, University of California, Los Angeles

Income Inequality and Educational Assortative Mating in the United States: Accounting for Trends from 1940 to 2003 • Robert D. Mare, University of California, Los Angeles ; Christine R. Schwartz, University of California, Los Angeles

Casting a Wider Net? Marriage Timing and Partner Choice • Kevin Shafer, Ohio State University ; Zhenchao Qian, Ohio State University