Changes in Marital Sorting. Theory and Evidence from the US.

Autor/inn/en	Chiappori, Pierre-André; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, Costas; Zhang, Hanzhe
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Changes in Marital Sorting. Theory and Evidence from the US.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2025), 50 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w33354
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Kohortenanalyse; Bildungsniveau; Ehe; Familie; Privathaushalt; Wirtschaftstheorie; Arbeitspapier; Matching; Theorie; USA
Abstract	Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions of the characteristic along which sorting takes place (e.g., education) change for either or both sexes. We show how the use of different measures can generate different conclusions. We provide axiomatic characterization for measures such as the odds ratio, normalized trace, and likelihood ratio, and provide a structural economic interpretation of the odds ratio. We then use our approach to consider how marital sorting by education changed between the 1950s and the 1970s cohort, for which both educational attainment and returns in the labor market changed substantially.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2025/3