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Yifan Shen

Sociology Department, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA • Personal webpage • yifan_shen(at)brown.edu
Families and households

Homogamy among high-income partners drives up family income inequality

September 6, 2021 Yifan Shen
Family, inequality, inequity, Work, world

More married couples today consist of two high-income or two low-income partners (i.e., income homogamy), which leads to greater income inequality in married-couple families. Yifan Shen shows that, all else … Read more

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