Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Income inequality and educational assortative mating: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study.

Though extensive research has explored the prevalence of educational assortative mating, what causes its variation across countries and over time is not well understood. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database, I investigate the hypothesis that assortative mating by income is influenced by income inequality between educational strata. I find that in countries with greater returns t...

Educational Assortative Mating in Two Generations:

Income Inequality and Household Debt

Assortative Mating and Income Inequality in Taiwan: A Quantile Regression Approach

Sociologists are inclined to predict that increases in homogamy may increase inequality among families, but the existing literature is short on such empirical evidence. Using quantile regression, which allows us to detect if effects of income determinants may vary across different economic strata, we examine whether, how, and to what extent “like marrying like” may lead to the increased inequal...

Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults.

Understanding the social and biological mechanisms that lead to homogamy (similar individuals marrying one another) has been a long-standing issue across many fields of scientific inquiry. Using a nationally representative sample of non-Hispanic white US adults from the Health and Retirement Study and information from 1.7 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms, we compare genetic similarity am...