Marry your like: Assortative mating and income inequality

American Economic Review

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 348-353

  Greenwood, Jeremy ^a   Guner, Nezih ^b   Kocharkov, Georgi ^c   Santos, Cezar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MOVE (Markets   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 84901412218     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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