income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low …

education generate a considerable rise in household income inequality, but these price effects are partly mitigated by increases … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in each country. However, the time trends vary by the level … of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas the low-educated are …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low …

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. …

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 …

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 …