Racial differences in marriage and the role of marriage markets
Racial differences in marriage and the role of marriage markets
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DOI：
10.2307/146427
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发表时间：
1997-09-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Brien, MJ
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作者：
Brien, MJ
本文探讨了婚姻市场的作用，在解释种族差异的时间结婚。使用的数据从全国纵向研究的高中班的1972年，证据的规模和意义上的差异，在美国白人和黑人之间的第一次婚姻的时间。此外，通过匹配1980年美国人口普查的纵向数据，婚姻市场的各种措施对婚姻决定的影响进行了研究。本文探讨了在不同地理聚集水平下定义的婚姻市场，男性被认为是“适婚”的其他定义，控制参与者教育水平的市场变量，以及婚姻市场随时间的变化。各种定义的实验的主要结果之一是，相对于地方一级，在州一级定义的变量能够解释更多的种族差异在结婚时间。最后，本文对这个问题进行了研究，并揭示了证据表明，在地方一级定义的变量中的测量误差可能是导致这一结果的原因。
This paper examines the role of marriage markets in explaining racial differences in the timing of marriage. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, evidence is presented on the magnitude and significance of differences in the timing of first marriage between whites and blacks in the United States. Further, by matching the 1980 U.S. census to the longitudinal data, the effect on the marriage decision of a variety of measures of the marriage market is examined. This paper examines marriage markets defined at various levels of geographic aggregation, alternative definitions of what males are considered ''marriageable,'' market variables that control for the education level of the participants, and changes over time in marriage markets. One of the primary results of the experimentation with various definitions is that, relative to the local level, the variables defined at the state level are able to account for more of the racial differences in the timing of marriage. The paper concludes with an examination of this issue and reveals evidence that suggests that measurement error in the variables defined at the local level may be underlying this result.