"A new working paper concludes:
"Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating....[I]f matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been random, instead of the pattern observed in the data, then the Gini coefficient would have fallen from the observed 0.43 to 0.34, so that income inequality would be smaller""
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
How Much Marriage Affects Inequality
See On Assortative Mating by Greg Mankiw.
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