%0 Report
        %A Almar, Frederik
%A Friedrich, Benjamin
%A Reynoso, Ana
%A Schulz, Bastian
%A Vejlin, Rune Majlund
        %T Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15912
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15912
        %X This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of marriage market types based on the starting wages and wage growth trajectories associated with educational programs: ambition types. We find a substantial increase in sorting by educational ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with the commonly used level of education. Hence, the mapping between education and marriage-market types matters crucially for conclusions about the role of marital sorting in rising income inequality.
        %K marital sorting
%K inequality
%K education