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Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Fernández, Raquel
Guner, Nezih
Knowles, John
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This Paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model in which agents decide whether to become skilled or unskilled, form households, consume and have children. We show that the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill premium. In the absence of perfect capital markets, the economy can converge to different steady states, depending upon initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are positively correlated across steady states. We use household surveys from 34 countries to construct several measures of the skill premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and significant relationship between the two variables.
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Keywords: assortative matching education fertility growth human capital Other versions of this item:
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