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Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality / Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, Rune M. Vejlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Almar, Frederik.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w33683.
- NBER working paper series no. w33683
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2025.
- Summary:
- This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of "ambition types" that is based on starting wages and wage growth trajectories associated with detailed educational programs. We find a substantial increase in assortative matching by educational ambition over time, and the marriage market explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with the commonly-used educational level categorization. We conclude that the mapping from education to types matters crucially for conclusions about how education-based marriage market sorting contributes to rising income inequality.
- Notes:
- April 2025.
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