Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income … inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been …