Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit; Eika, Lasse - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014
income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …
