Educational homogamy
Subtitle: preferences or opportunities?
By: by Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
Contributors: Svarer, Michael
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2271; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2271
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Family life education; Educational attainment; Husband and wife
Description: "Individuals match on length and type of education. We investigate whether the systematic relationship between educations of partners is explained by opportunities (e.g. low search frictions) or preferences (e.g. complementarities in household production or portfolio optimization). We find that half of the systematic sorting on education is due to low search frictions in marriage markets of the educational institutions. The other half is attributed to complementarities in household production, since income properties of the joint income process show no influence on partner selection"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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