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 …

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 …

counterfactual Gini coefficients that would prevail if marriage matching was random in terms of education. For China in 2005, the … inequality of per capita household income would drop from 0.508 to 0.476 if marriage was random. For urban areas in 2009 …, assortative marriage in education also increased the Gini coefficients by around 2 percentage points (from 0.316 to 0.337). The …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage … explain about 1/3 of the rise in income inequality. The intensive margin (educational assortative mating) has only played a …

. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for …This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …

outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …

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 between couples …

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 …

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …