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Author: Staub, Kalina
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Marriage Formation and Dissolution in the United States Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Duke University, 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Black Studies; Dropouts; Educational Attainment; Marital Status; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The first chapter highlights the roles that both the availability of men and competition from women within a marriage market play in the low marriage rates of uneducated black women. Black women who drop out of high school are far less likely to marry than those who do not; however, they also, counterintuitively, face much more favorable marriage markets than more educated women if we define marriage markets as independent by education level, as is standard. Using a simple model of the marriage market with men and women of different quality levels that allows for marriage market integration across education levels, I show that the marriage prospects of any woman should depend not only on the availability of men, but also the competition from more educated women. Additionally, this model predicts that any gender imbalance should disproportionately affect the marriage prospects for the least educated. Using data from the 1979-2004 waves of the NLSY79, I estimate discrete-time hazard models of first marriages for black women, capturing a woman's marriage prospects in four ways: (i) using a flexible specification that includes five ratios for the relative availability of men as well as the prevalence of competing women at each education level, (ii) using the ratios for the availability of men and women at adjacent education levels, (iii) using an education-specific simple sex ratio from the educationally segmented marriage markets that dominate the literature, and (iv) using a "cascading'' sex ratio implied by the simple model. The results emphasize the importance not only of the supply of men, but also of the competition from other women for the least educated women. Thus, marriage market measures that do not account for this cross-education competition greatly overstate the favorability of the marriage markets for uneducated black women. |
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Staub, Kalina. Marriage Formation and Dissolution in the United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Duke University, 2013. |
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Marriage Patterns of Black Women: Education, Competition and the Shortage of Available Men Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Black Studies; Educational Attainment; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Black women who drop out of high school are marrying at much lower rates than more educated black women. Previous studies have assumed independent marriage markets by education level. However, when we characterize marriage markets in this way, they seem to be the most favorable for the least educated women. Using a simple model of the marriage market from Becker (1981) that allows for integration in marriage markets across education levels, I show that any imbalance in sex ratios, especially at the top of the educational distribution, should cascade down to disproportionately impact the least educated women. Using data from the 1979-2004 waves of the NLSY79 and a discrete-time hazard framework, I include a sex ratio based on Becker's model that accounts for both the supply of men and the competition from more educated women. This "cascading" sex ratio is more effective in accounting for the educational differences in marriage. |
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Bibliography Citation
Staub, Kalina. "Marriage Patterns of Black Women: Education, Competition and the Shortage of Available Men." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013. |