Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279355 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10604
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have changed relatively more in recent decades. Based on our weighted measure, we document increasing sorting in Denmark between 1980 and 2018. Alternative measures suggest flat or decreasing trends.
Subjects: 
positive assortative mating
marriage market sorting
homophily
educational attainment
sorting measures
aggregation
JEL: 
C43
D10
J11
J12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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