Charles, Kerwin; Hurst, Erik; Killewald, Alexandra - In: Demography 50 (2013) 1, pp. 51-70
inequality, the role of marriage as a mechanism for social mobility, and the extent of cross-group interactions within a society …. However, studies of assortative mating have disproportionately focused on spouses’ education, rather than their social origins … spousal education explains only one-quarter of sorting based on parental wealth. We show that our results are robust to …