The Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS)

"Social scientists have overwhelmingly documented a strong and increasing educational homogamy between spouses. When estimating sorting by education, the presence of measurement error in the education variables or random factors in the matching process may underestimate the actual degree of assortative mating, simultaneity bias may overestimate it, while omitting other individual characteristics relevant in the marriage market may under- or overestimate it. We address these issues using an instrumental variables approach based on exploiting genetic variation in polygenic scores and controlling for population stratification."

About the Speaker

Professor Climent Quintana-Domeque is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. His interests include Economic Development, Health Economics, Family Economics, and Labour Economics.