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Title: Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment
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Seitz, Shannon |
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Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment Working Paper, Economics Department, Queen's University, August 2004. Also: http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/faculty/seitz/Paper13.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Economics Department, Queens University Keyword(s): Divorce; Household Models; Marriage; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. To what extent can marriage market conditions explain differences in marriage and employment decisions across blacks and whites? I develop a dynamic, equilibrium model of marriage that is consistent with several stylized facts on racial differences in marriage and employment rates. The parameters of the model are estimated using a panel of young men and women from the US. Black-white differences in the quality and quantity of men and women in the marriage market explain 20% of the difference in marriage rates and between one-fifth and one-third of the differences in employment rates across race. |
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Seitz, Shannon. "Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment." Working Paper, Economics Department, Queen's University, August 2004. |