Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth
Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth
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DOI：
10.1007/s13524-012-0144-6
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Killewald, Alexandra
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作者：
Charles, Kerwin Kofi;Hurst, Erik;Killewald, Alexandra
社会经济背景的婚姻分类的程度对不平等的代际传递、婚姻作为社会流动机制的作用以及社会中跨群体互动的程度都有影响。然而，对择偶的研究不成比例地集中在配偶的教育上，而不是他们的社会出身。使用收入动态面板研究（PSID）的数据，并利用数据集的独特系谱设计，我们研究了配偶根据父母财富进行排序的程度。我们发现，在控制了种族和年龄之后，已婚配偶之间的父母财富的估计相关性约为0.4。重要的是，我们表明，控制配偶教育只解释了四分之一的排序基于父母的财富。我们表明，我们的研究结果是强大的会计测量误差的配偶报告父母的财富和选择进入和退出婚姻。
The extent of marital sorting by socioeconomic background has implications for the intergenerational transmission of inequality, the role of marriage as a mechanism for social mobility, and the extent of cross-group interactions within a society. However, studies of assortative mating have disproportionately focused on spouses' education, rather than their social origins. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and exploiting the unique genealogical design of the data set, we study the degree to which spouses sort on the basis of parental wealth. We find that the estimated correlation in parental wealth among married spouses, after controlling for race and age, is about .4. Importantly, we show that controlling for spousal education explains only one-quarter of sorting based on parental wealth. We show that our results are robust to accounting for measurement error in spousal reports of parental wealth and for selection into and out of marriage.