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. …

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. …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support … the notion that increased skill inequality contributes to rising earnings inequality. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …