Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Hurst, Erik; Killewald, Alexandra - 2011
the degree to which spouses sort in the marriage market on the basis of parental wealth. We estimate a variety of models … in log wealth between own and spouse's parents wealth is around 0.4. We show that education accounts for only one …-quarter of this sorting, and also show that selection into and out marriage by parental wealth does not appreciably bias our …
