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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Main Author: Steven Ruggles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2022-06-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/46/39