Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor; Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 4, pp. 965-998
Up to the late 1970's the Sex College Attainment Ratio (SCAR), or ratio of college attainment between men and women, was about 1.6. Assortative mating within education groups in marriages is strong enough in the United States to prevent accounting for the SCAR feature based on males' higher...