A rank-based measure of educational assortative mating

Christopher Handy ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 28, issue 12, 1031-1035

Abstract: Measures of educational assortative mating must contend with the fact that the marginal distributions of education differ by sex and change over time. I propose a new measure of assortative mating, which is based on Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient but instead uses sex-by-birth cohort education ranks. I show that this adjusted measure is more robust than other measures to changes over time in the underlying education distributions.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1796907

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