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To measure educational assortative mating across five developed nations and evaluate its contribution to cross-sectional household income inequality and inequality trends over time.

December 12, 2018Journal of Political Economy

Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

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LELasse EikaStatistics Norway MMMagne MogstadStatistics Norway BZBasit ZafarNational Bureau of Economic Research

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Cross-national study finds educational assortative mating contributes to static household income inequality across five nations, indicating changing marriage trends do not drive rising inequality.

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To measure educational assortative mating across five developed nations and evaluate its contribution to cross-sectional household income inequality and inequality trends over time.
Analyzed national household income and demographic datasets from Denmark, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Conducted a decomposition analysis to separate and quantify the relative contribution of educational assortative mating to the distribution of household income.
Assortative mating accounts for a nonnegligible component of cross-sectional household income inequality in each of the five nations.
Temporal changes in educational assortative mating over time have virtually no effect on time trends in household income inequality.

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Eika et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a93b6aaa7fff1ff16463475 https://doi.org/10.1086/702018

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Cross-national study finds educational assortative mating contributes to static household income inequality across five nations, indicating changing marriage trends do not drive rising inequality.

Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

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