Assortative mating on education: a genetic assessment

Social scientists have overwhelmingly documented a strong and increasing educational homogamy between spouses. When estimating sorting by education, the presence of measurement error in the education variables or random factors in the matching process may underestimate the actual degree of assortati...

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Main Authors: Quintana-Domeque, C, Barban, N, De Cao, E, Oreffice, S
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2016