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. …

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 …

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 …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage … explain about 1/3 of the rise in income inequality. The intensive margin (educational assortative mating) has only played a …

differentially impacting the investments in children by parents across education groups. A larger return to college will create … stronger incentives to invest in children by parents with more education, if educated parents have a comparative advantage in … educated mothers in states with a larger increase in the return to education are more likely to be married, less likely to …

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign …