Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality
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- Frederik Almar & Benjamin Friedrich & Ana Reynoso & Bastian Schulz & Rune M. Vejlin, 2025. "Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality," NBER Working Papers 33683, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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inequality; marital sorting; education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2025-05-05 (Education)
- NEP-EUR-2025-05-05 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LAB-2025-05-05 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2025-05-05 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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