Marriage rates and marriageable men: a test of the Wilson hypothesis.
This article examines the hypothesis that recent declines in black marriage rates have been driven by a declining pool of high-earning, young black men. Using 1970 and 1980 SMSA-level Census data to estimate a fixed-effect model of black marriage rates, I find that declines in the pool of “marriage...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 30; pp. 163 - 194 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Winter95
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