income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. The reason is that the …

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 …

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 …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was … inequality and female education. …

This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in …

assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental … rise in average offspring education and earnings as well as a decline in offspring inequality. …

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 …

working full time full year, and its impact on household income inequality. We also investigate how marriage sorting patterns …Using CPS data for 1976 to 2022 we explore how wage inequality has evolved for married couples with both spouses … have changed over this period. To determine the factors driving income inequality we estimate a model explaining the joint …

marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative … race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … potential spouses and potential supplies of spouses in regional marriage markets. This paper examines the possibility that the …