Optimal weights for marital sorting measures
针对男性和女性类型分布变化对教育婚姻市场分类测度的扭曲,提出一种加权策略以最小化扭曲,并基于丹麦数据发现1980-2018年间分类程度上升,而其他测度显示平稳或下降趋势。
Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have changed relatively more in recent decades. Based on our weighted measure, we document increased sorting in Denmark between 1980 and 2018. Alternative measures suggest flat or decreasing trends.