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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Eika, Lasse Mogstad, Magne Zafar, Basit |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal We document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries. Our analysis focuses on the U.S. but also uses data from Denmark, Germany, the U.K., and Norway. We find 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 increasingly sorting into internally homogeneous marriages. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition analysis where we quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible 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. This is because the inequality contribution from the increase in assortative mating among the low educated is offset by the equalizing effect from the decline in assortative mating among the highly educated. By comparison, increases over time in the returns to education generate a considerable rise in household income inequality, but these price effects are partly mitigated by increases in college attendance and completion rates among women. |
| Related Links | https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/120833/1/796900671.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3339601 |
| ISSN | 10914358 |
| e-ISSN | 15565068 |
| DOI | 10.2139/ssrn.3339601 |
| Journal | SSRN Electronic Journal |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Publisher Date | 2018-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Assortative Mating Household Income |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health |
