Educational Assortative Mating Case Study

Memo 6 will investigate how the patterns of educational assortative mating impacts household income inequality, educational levels and health by using information from the WLS data set which will help us to understand the real correlation and how significant these measures are. Assortative mating is a companionship pattern which is also knows as a form of sexual choice in which a person choose the spouse.
The result in part one of this memo will examine the educational assortative mating which showed some similarly among respondents and their spouse’s educational level and weather they received any high school education or less. Based on table 1 both the respondents and their spouses level education showed similar percentages. The results also suggest that 60% of the respondents and their spouses received a high school education, about 15% of both spouses had some college education and about 25 % in both group had a
The findings also confirmed that while educational assortative mating is somewhat significant statistically among theses group, they also value their health as equally important. However, there is really no fundamental difference in the way the participants’ self- rate their general health to their educational level. .

Overall, these trends showed that the participants viewed both their educational level as well as health status as something that makes them standout from others. In interpreting these findings, it is important to keep in mind that educational assortative mating is very important among spouses educational mating patterns, health as well as