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14 August 2018
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No. 092

Educational Assortative Mating and Income Inequality in Thailand

Sasiwimon Warunsiri PaweenawatLusi Liao

Abstract

This study measures educational assortative mating in Thailand and its relationship with income inequality using national labor force survey data from 1985–2016. Since the 1990s, Thailand shows a trend of decreasing educational homogamy, but there is evidence of continuing educational hypergamy in Thai households. Using the semiparametric decomposition method of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996), the study finds that educational assortative mating has affected changes in household income inequality over time. Furthermore, there exists a negative relationship between income inequality and marital sorting with same education, which contradicts evidence found in developed countries.

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Paweenawat, S. W., & Liao, L. (2023). Educational assortative mating and income inequality in Thailand. Journal of Demographic Economics, 89(2), 283–298.

Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat
Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat
Thammasat University
Lusi Liao
Lusi Liao
Baoshan University
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JEL: D31I24J12
Tags: educational assortative matingincome inequalitythailand
The views expressed in this workshop do not necessarily reflect the views of the Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research or the Bank of Thailand.
Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat
Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat
Thammasat University
Lusi Liao
Lusi Liao
Baoshan University

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