. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college … income inequality. …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … that rising earnings inequality is, at least in part, supply driven by rising skill inequality. …

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 ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation). Second, we assess the contribution of assortative mating to earnings … inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected … individuals match on traits correlated with the choice of education, such as innate ability, tastes or family environment. Another … possible explanation is that the choice of college education causally impacts whether and whom one marries, either because of …

This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … the commonly used level of education. Hence, the mapping between education and marriage-market types matters crucially for … administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of marriage market types based on the starting wages and wage growth …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key …

about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … also document a sizeable secular decline of parental assortative mating in education, with a corresponding fall in joint …

rise in average offspring education and earnings as well as a decline in offspring inequality. … assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental … assortative mating as they can arise from change in sorting into education as much as from change in sorting into partnerships …