We use data from Denmark, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States
to document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the …

This article compares marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States
during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources. The comparative approach allows …

What explains the strong educational homogamy and assortativity that we observe among
the college educated? We use Norwegian data to address identification and measurement …

The extent to which like-with like marry is particularly important for inequality as well as for
the outcomes of children that result from the union. In this paper we discuss approaches to …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undergoing rapid transformations in the realm of union
formation in tandem with significant educational expansion and rising labor force …

Two recent trends in marriage imply different consequences for the degree of heterogeneity
in American society: Increasing racial intermarriage indicates higher levels of social …

The Internet has now become a habitual channel for finding a partner, but little is known
about the impact of this recent partnership market on mate selection patterns. This study …

In this paper, we describe mating patterns in the USA from 1964 to 2017 and measure the
impact of changes in marital preferences on between-household income inequality. We rely …

In this paper, we study the pattern of assortative marriage in China since 1990 and its impact
on income inequality. The results indicate that men in China are increasingly likely to marry …

We study changes in educational homogamy in the US and four European countries over
the decade covering the Great Recession. The marital preferences identified point to the …