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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih, Kocharkov, Georgi, Santos, Cezar·2014·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.104.5.348
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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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Authors
Greenwood, J., Guner, N., Kocharkov, G., & Santos, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • MOVE, Facultat d'Economia, Edifici B, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain (e-mail: )
  • University of Konstanz (DE)
  • University of Mannheim (DE)
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Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2014-05-01
Volume
104
Issue
5
Pages
348-353
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.104.5.348
OpenAlex
W2116623494
Cited by
411
References
15
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2026: 31 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 45 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 42 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 10
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77.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Keywords
assortative mating, household income inequality, Gini coefficient, married couples, female labor force participation, marriage patterns

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