@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17814,
            	author={Almar, Frederik and Friedrich, Benjamin and Reynoso, Ana and Schulz, Bastian and Vejlin, Rune Majlund},
            	title={Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality},
            	year={2025},
	month={Mar},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={17814},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17814},
	abstract={This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of “ambition types” that is based on starting wages and wage growth trajectories associated with detailed educational programs. We find a substantial increase in assortative matching by educational ambition over time, and the marriage market explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with the commonly-used educational level categorization. We conclude that the mapping from education to types matters crucially for conclusions about how education-based marriage market sorting contributes to rising income inequality.},
	keywords={education;marital sorting;inequality},
            }