TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational assortative mating and household income inequality
AU - Eika, Lasse
AU - Mogstad, Magne
AU - Zafar, Basit
N1 - Funding Information:
and Michael Graber for helping us with the analysis of the Danish data and German data. The project received financial support from the Norwegian Research Council. Data are provided as supplementary material online.
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PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - We use data from Denmark, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States to document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries. This descriptive analysis motivates and guides a decomposition analysis in which we quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that assortative mating accounts for a nonnegligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality.
AB - We use data from Denmark, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States to document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries. This descriptive analysis motivates and guides a decomposition analysis in which we quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that assortative mating accounts for a nonnegligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality.
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U2 - 10.1086/702018
DO - 10.1086/702018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85076796892
SN - 0022-3808
VL - 127
SP - 2795
EP - 2835
JO - Journal of Political Economy
JF - Journal of Political Economy
IS - 6
ER -