Replication data for: Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jeremy Greenwood; Nezih Guner; Georgi Kocharkov; Cezar Santos
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Project Citation:
Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih, Kocharkov, Georgi, and Santos, Cezar. Replication data for: Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112795V1
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Summary:
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Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income 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 random, instead of the pattern observed in the data, then the Gini coefficient would have fallen from the observed 0.43 to 0.34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level of married female labor-force participation in 2005 is important for this result.
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D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
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