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Title: Rationalizing Trends in Educational Assortative Mating over the Early 20th-Century United States
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: Understanding trends in assortative mating is essential to understanding how inequality may change over time. Little research has been done on trends in assortative mating in the early 20th century, especially during a period known as the "high school movement" which saw a rapid increase in the availability of secondary education and a decline in economic inequality. I use the Seperable Extreme Value Index developed by Chiappori et al. (2020) to determine changes in assortative mating and perform a counterfactual analysis. I find that positive assortative mating decreased among high school-educated people between the 1880-89 and 1890-99 birth cohorts. This is consistent with a counterfactual simulation which suggests that the value of positive assortative mating also decreased. I use the general openness, saturation, and status-attainment hypotheses to rationalize the trends in assortative mating over the entire 20th century.
Url: https://www.fsb.miamioh.edu/lij14/thesis_LaGuardia.pdf
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Authors: Laguardia, Emma
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Institution: Miami University
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Reproductive and Sexual Health
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