Race, class, and marriage: Components of race differences in men's first marriage rates, United States, 1960-2019
<b>Background</b>: Wilson (1987) argued that race differences in the frequency of marriage from the 1960s to the 1980s resulted from a shortage of marriageable men in the Black community. A large literature used spatially defined measures of male marriageability to predict marriage rates...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2022-06-01
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Online Access: | https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/46/39 |