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 …

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 …

. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … income inequality. …

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 …

Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … sensitivity analysis indicates that virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when moving from money income to extended … measured inequality is insensitive to the correlation between money and household production income. The practical importance …

show that income inequality of reference group of husbands in age-regional cross sections can be a predictor of their wives …

, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased …

inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …