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A rank-based measure of educational assortative mating

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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 education ranks. I show that this adjusted measure is more robust than other measures to changes over time in the underlying education distributions.

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  • Christopher Handy, 2021. "A rank-based measure of educational assortative mating," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(12), pages 1031-1035, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:28:y:2021:i:12:p:1031-1035
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1796907
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