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Studying Ethnic Endogamy in Croatia with a Suitable Indicator of Homophily
Anna Naszodi
In this paper, we study the patterns of ethnic endogamy in Croatia in relation to six ethnic groups between 1970 and 2015. We find that, over the 45-year period analyzed, the segme…
Historical trend in educational homophily: U-shaped or not U-shaped? Or, how to set a criterion to choose a criterion?
Anna Naszodi
Measuring changes in overall inequality between different educational groups is often performed by quantifying variations in educational marital homophily across consecutive genera…
Are high school degrees and university diplomas equally heritable in the US? A new measure of relative intergenerational mobility
Anna Naszodi, Liliana Cuccu
This paper proposes a new measure of relative intergenerational mobility along the educational trait as a proxy of inequality of opportunity. The new measure is more suitable for c…
The iterative proportional fitting algorithm and the NM-method: solutions for two different sets of problems
Anna Naszodi
In this paper, we identify two different sets of problems. The first covers the problems that the iterative proportional fitting (IPF) algorithm was developed to solve. These conce…
Direct comparison or indirect comparison via a series of counterfactual decompositions?
Anna Naszodi
We illustrate the point with an empirical analysis of assortative mating in the US, namely, that the outcome of comparing two distant groups can be sensitive to whether comparing t…
What do surveys say about the trend in inequality and the applicability of two table-transformation methods?
Anna Naszodi
We apply a pseudo panel analysis of survey data from the years 2010 and 2017 about Americans' self-reported marital preferences and perform some formal tests on the sign and magnit…
Decomposition scheme matters more than you may think
Anna Naszodi
This paper promotes the application of a path-independent decomposition scheme. Besides presenting some theoretical arguments supporting this decomposition scheme, this study also…
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?
Anna Naszodi, Francisco Mendonca
We develop a method suitable for detecting whether racial homophily is on the rise and also whether the economic divide (i.e., the gap between individuals with different education…