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- Title
THE WIDENING GAP IN BLACK AND WHITE MARRIAGE RATES: THE IMPACT OF POPULATION COMPOSITION AND DIFFERENTIAL MARRIAGE PROPENSITIES.
- Authors
Schoen, Robert; Kluegel, James R.
- Abstract
Observers have sought to explain growing differences between black and white marriage patterns in terms of compositional effects that have produced shortages of black males, particularly those with characteristics seen as desirable in husbands, Although marriage market imbalances exist, no quantitative assessment of their importance has been made. The present study uses 1969-1971 and 1979-1981 marriage data for North Carolina and Virginia to make such an assessment. We create a composition-independent measure of marriage to decompose differences between black and white marriage rates and their change over time into factors attributable to population composition and to the propensity to many, i.e., the mutual attraction for marriage. The results show that compositional effects have played only a minor role and suggest new research directions to explain racial differences in marriage propensities.
- Subjects
NORTH Carolina; VIRGINIA; UNITED States; MARRIAGE; RACE discrimination; GENDER; RESEARCH; HOUSEHUSBANDS
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1988, Vol 53, Issue 6, p895
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2095898