TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Greenwood, Jeremy
AU  - Guner, Nezih
AU  - Kocharkov, Georgi
AU  - Santos, Cezar
        TI  - Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
        PY  - 2014/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7895
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7895
        AB  - Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been random, instead of the pattern observed in the data, then the Gini coefficient would have fallen from the observed 0.43 to 0.34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level of married female labor-force participation in 2005 is important for this result.
        KW  - married female labor supply
KW  - assortative mating
KW  - inequality
        ER  -