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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11572
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
Education and Inequality
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- Thema
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marriage market
matching
singles
assortative mating
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dupuy, Arnaud
Weber, Simon
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Dupuy, Arnaud
- Weber, Simon
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2018
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