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Title: Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating on the marriage market since 1960? How does positive assortative mating in the marriage market contribute to income inequality across households? These two questions are addressed here. To answer them, samples of hundreds and thousands of households from the United States Census Bureau are analyzed for the period 1960 to 2005.

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Authors: Santos, Cezar; Greenwood, Jeremy; Kocharkov, Georgi; Guner, Nezih

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania

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Topics: Family and Marriage

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