@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18351,
            	author={Grebol, Ricard and Machelett, Margarita and Stuhler, Jan and Villanueva, Ernesto},
            	title={Assortative Mating, Inequality, and Rising Educational Mobility in Spain},
            	year={2025},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18351},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18351},
	abstract={We study the evolution of intergenerational educational mobility and related distributional statistics in Spain. Over recent decades, mobility has risen by one-third, coinciding with pronounced declines in inequality and assortative mating among the same cohorts. To explore these patterns, we examine regional correlates of mobility, using split-sample techniques. A key finding from both national and regional analyses is the close association between mobility and assortative mating: spousal sorting accounts for nearly half of the regional variation in intergenerational correlations and also appears to be a key mediator of the negative relationship between inequality and mobility documented in recent studies.},
	keywords={assortative mating;intergenerational mobility;inequality;education},
            }