Arbeitspapier

Marital Patterns and Income Inequality

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage market, i.e. who remains single and who marries whom. Using US data from 1962 to 2017, we show that marital patterns can explain about 1/3 of the rise in income inequality. The intensive margin (educational assortative mating) has only played a minor role (5%), the extensive margin being the main driver of the contribution of marital patterns (95%).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11572

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
Education and Inequality
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Thema
marriage market
matching
singles
assortative mating

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dupuy, Arnaud
Weber, Simon
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2018

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dupuy, Arnaud
  • Weber, Simon
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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