%0 Report
        %A Grebol, Ricard
%A Machelett, Margarita
%A Stuhler, Jan
%A Villanueva, Ernesto
        %T Assortative Mating, Inequality, and Rising Educational Mobility in Spain
        %D 2025
        %8 2025 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18351
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18351
        %X 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.
        %K assortative mating
%K intergenerational mobility
%K inequality
%K education