Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Lasse Eika, Magne Mogstad, Basit Zafar

NBER Working Paper No. 20271
Issued in July 2014, Revised in June 2018

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We thank James J. Heckman, three referees, and seminar participants at several universities and conferences for comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Rasmus Landersø for helping us with the analysis of the Danish data. The project received financial support from the Norwegian Research Council. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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