Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality
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- Lasse Eika & Magne Mogstad & Basit Zafar, 2014. "Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality," NBER Working Papers 20271, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
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