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The Marriage Market and Wealth Inequality
In Norway, banks directly report to the government about how much citizens have in their accounts. Luigi spotted some very unusual data that allowed him to quantify the extent of a sortative meeting in society. He and his colleagues collected 11 years worth of tax data. It included the income and assets of over 5 million people,. The rich, the poor, and everyone in between. Next they looked at marriage records.