 Trends in Sorting Along Race in the USA at the National LevelChapter Chapter 13 in New Methods for Measuring Inequality by Analyzing Assortative Mating, 2025, pp 235-240 from Springer Abstract: Abstract In one of the empirical analyses presented in Sect. 11.3 , it has been taken into account that Americans sort into couples both along the educational and racial traits. In that section, we presented some of the results by Naszodi and Mendonca (A new method for identifying what Cupid’s invisible hand is doing. Is it spreading color blindness while turning us more picky about spousal education? (2023b). https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06991 ) in the context of a sensitivity analysis. In particular, we used their results to address the question whether the stylized U-shaped pattern in the degree of sorting along the educational trait is robust to controlling for sorting along race and the intergenerational changes in the racial composition of the marriageable individuals in the USA. To recall, Sect. 11.3 showed that both the GNM-method—designed to account for sorting along education and race jointly,—and the NM-method—designed to analyze sorting along the single trait of education—document the historical trend in educational homophily to have had a U-shape in the US over the twentieth century (see Figs. 11.8 b and 11.9 ). Date: 2025 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-3-031-98277-4_13 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-98277-4_13 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis from Springer |
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