Una trampa de desigualdad las consecuencias del emparejamiento selectivo en la distribución de ingresos

Estéfano Rubio

Estudios Públicos, 2016, issue 144, 61-107

Abstract: This paper looks at the effects of assortative mating on education for variables such as inequality, income and the level of education of society. For Chile, it simulates a scenario where the parents of this generation would have mated randomly, without regard to their mate’s level of education. It demonstrates that in that hypothetical scenario, the inequality of household income, measured using the Gini coefficient, would fall from 0.48 to 0.43, a drop equivalent to the reduction in inequality between 1990 and 2013 (for this same variable). On average, income would simultaneously fall 15 percent, the uneducated would decrease by

Keywords: Assortative mating; homogamy; inequality; intergenerational educational mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I24 J12 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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