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 …

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 …

. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college … income inequality. …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

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 …

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 …