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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Resour. 2020 Sep 11;57(6):1885–1914. doi: 10.3368/jhr.58.2.0320-10803r1

Figure 5. Distributions of Gender Relative Income in the 2000 U.S. Census: Actual Sorting and Simulated Sorting with Endogenous Earnings.

Figure 5

Notes: The sample is the same as in Figure 2. The figure plots a 20-bin histogram of the actual distribution of the wife’s share of total spousal earnings (“Actual Sorting”), and a 20-bin histogram of a simulated distribution based on assortative matching of couples on potential income plus noise (“Simulated Sorting”)—and in which the wife’s observed earnings are endogenized via a neoclassical labor supply decision. See Section IV.B for further detail on the simulation. The dashed lines represent the lowess smoother applied to each histogram on either side of 0.5.