TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Almar, Frederik
AU  - Friedrich, Benjamin
AU  - Reynoso, Ana
AU  - Schulz, Bastian
AU  - Vejlin, Rune Majlund
        TI  - Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters
        PY  - 2023/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15912
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15912
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - marital sorting
KW  - inequality
KW  - education
        ER  -