TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Nybom, Martin
AU  - Plug, Erik
AU  - Klaauw, Bas van der
AU  - Ziegler, Lennart
        TI  - Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality
        PY  - 2022/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15824
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15824
        AB  - This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion that rising earnings inequality is, at least in part, supply driven by rising skill inequality.
        KW  - assortative mating
KW  - intergenerational mobility
KW  - education
KW  - earnings inequality
        ER  -