A rank-based measure of educational assortative mating

Measures of educational assortative mating must contend with the fact that the marginal distributions of education differ by sex and change over time. I propose a new measure of assortative mating, which is based on Spearman's rank correlation coefficient but instead uses sex-by-birth cohort ed...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied economics letters 2021-07, Vol.28 (12), p.1031-1035
1. Verfasser:	Handy, Christopher
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Assortative mating Economic analysis Economic theory Economics Education Marriage market Mating
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