TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Grebol, Ricard
AU  - Machelett, Margarita
AU  - Stuhler, Jan
AU  - Villanueva, Ernesto
        TI  - Assortative Mating, Inequality, and Rising Educational Mobility in Spain
        PY  - 2025/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18351
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18351
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - assortative mating
KW  - intergenerational mobility
KW  - inequality
KW  - education
        ER  -