TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Almar, Frederik
AU  - Schulz, Bastian
        TI  - Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures
        PY  - 2023/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16368
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16368
        AB  - 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.

        KW  - educational attainment
KW  - homophily
KW  - marriage market sorting
KW  - positive assortative mating
KW  - sorting measures
KW  - aggregation
        ER  -