Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures

Arbeitspapier

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of educationbased marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have changed relatively more in recent decades. Based on our weighted measure, we document increasing sorting in Denmark between 1980 and 2018. Alternative measures suggest flat or decreasing trends.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16368

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Index Numbers and Aggregation; Leading indicators ; Household Behavior: General ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
• Subject: positive assortative mating ; marriage market sorting ; homophily ; educational attainment ; sorting measures ; aggregation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Almar, Frederik ; Schulz, Bastian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2023

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/279066
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET