Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit; Eika, Lasse - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014
We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household … analysis, where we quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …