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Marriage Markets and Intermarriage: Exchange in First Marriages and Remarriages
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 849–875.
Published: 24 April 2018
... for exchange, both as complements and substitutes. We apply conditional logit models to show how patterns of assortative mating among never-married and previously married persons are subject to local marriage market opportunities and constraints. The results reveal that previously married individuals “cast...
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Educational assortative mating across marriage markets: Nonhispanic whites in the United States
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 29–40.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Susan K. Lewis; Valerie K. Oppenheimer Abstract Whether local marriage market conditions shape marriage behavior is a central social demographic question. Most work on this subject, however, focuses on one type of market condition—sex ratios— and on a single outcome—marital timing or sorting. We...
View articletitled, Educational assortative mating across <span class="search-highlight">marriage</span> <span class="search-highlight">markets</span>: Nonhispanic whites in the United States
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Potential (Mis)match? Marriage Markets Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 183–208.
Published: 21 January 2015
... ). Madrid, Spain : Alianza Editorial . Cabré , A. ( 1994 ). Tensiones inminentes en los mercados matrimoniales [Imminent tensions in marriage markets.] . In J. Nadal (Ed.), El mundo que viene (pp. 37 – 62 ). Madrid, Spain : Alianza Editorial . Choo , E. , & Siow...
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View articletitled, Potential (Mis)match? <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span> <span class="search-highlight">Markets</span> Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050
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The salience of PAN-national hispanic and Asian identities in U.S. marriage markets
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 161–175.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Michael J. Rosenfeld Abstract In this paper I test whether “Hispanic” and “Asian” identities are salient in the U.S. marriage market. That is, I determine whether the different Asian and Hispanic national groups intermarry often enough to suggest that Asian and Hispanic pan-national identities...
View articletitled, The salience of PAN-national hispanic and Asian identities in U.S. <span class="search-highlight">marriage</span> <span class="search-highlight">markets</span>
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Marriage markets and nonmarital fertility in the United States
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 247–264.
Published: 01 May 1992
... of nonemployed males. Only a small proportion of the racial difference in nonmarital fertility appears attributable to differences in the marriage markets of black and of white women. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1992 1992 Marriage Market Unmarried Woman Marriage Rate...
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Marriage Decline in Korea: Changing Composition of the Domestic Marriage Market and Growth in International Marriage
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 171–194.
Published: 09 January 2020
... on South Korea, we consider a very different scenario in which changing educational composition of the marriage market reduces the demographic feasibility of such marriages. Analyses of 1% microsamples of the 1990 and 2010 Korean censuses show that changes in the availability of potential spouses accounted...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span> Decline in Korea: Changing Composition of the Domestic <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span> <span class="search-highlight">Market</span> and Growth in International <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span>
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 939–963.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in both marriage market composition with respect to sibship position and sibship-specific pairing propensities to the observed decline in marriage rates between 1980 and 2010. One important finding is that marriage propensities are lower for those pairings involving men and women whose sibship position...
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View articletitled, Family Norms and Declining First-<span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span> Rates: The Role of Sibship Position in the Japanese <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span> <span class="search-highlight">Market</span>
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Consanguinity and Other Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1845–1871.
Published: 26 April 2013
..., protected households—with the additional attractive characteristic they offer on the marriage market—may be more likely to avoid this outcome. However, in that case, we would expect a stronger consanguinity effect in the male sample because the patrilocal nature of the marriage market means that males would...
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A new look at the marriage market and nuptiality rates, 1915–1958
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 549–569.
Published: 01 November 1971
... to other population transformations, but embodies a constraint such that, in general, the marriage regime cannot be strictly stable over time. The approach is applied to study the “marriage squeeze,” the alteration in marriage patterns that results from an imbalance in the “marriage market” or numbers...
View articletitled, A new look at the <span class="search-highlight">marriage</span> <span class="search-highlight">market</span> and nuptiality rates, 1915–1958
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in The Demographic and Socioeconomic Consequences of Restricting Access to Marriage for Young Immigrant Women in Denmark
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Published: 01 February 2025
Fig. 1 Lexis surface showing reforms affecting the marriage market in Denmark for immigrants and descendants. Green represents the impact of the attachment rule, orange reflects the 24-year rule, and yellow represents the 28-year rule.
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Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: evidence from malawi
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2009
... market. A possible behavioral change in the marriage market in response to an increase in prime-age adult mortality is to marry earlier to avoid exposure to HIV/AIDS risks. We test this hypothesis by using micro data from Malawi, where prime-age adult mortality has drastically increased. In the analysis...
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 87–112.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Fig. 1 Lexis surface showing reforms affecting the marriage market in Denmark for immigrants and descendants. Green represents the impact of the attachment rule, orange reflects the 24-year rule, and yellow represents the 28-year rule. ...
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View articletitled, The Demographic and Socioeconomic Consequences of Restricting Access to <span class="search-highlight">Marriage</span> for Young Immigrant Women in Denmark
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Estimating a marriage matching model with spillover effects
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 463–490.
Published: 01 August 2006
... that the scarceness of men modestly reduced the welfare of women and increased the welfare of men in the marriage market. On the other hand, the baby boom increased older men’s net gains to entering the marriage market and lowered middle-aged women’s net gains 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America...
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Education and black-white interracial marriage
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 673–689.
Published: 01 November 2006
... and strong isolation of lower-class blacks from the interracial marriage market. Structural assimilation theory is not supported because the educational attainment of whites is not related in any consistent fashion to the likelihood of interracial marriage. The strong isolation of lower-class blacks from...
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Mate availability and unmarried parent relationships
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 555–571.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Kristen Harknett Abstract Theoretically, a shortage of males in a local marriage market may influence the formation, quality,and trajectory of unmarried parent relationships. To test these hypotheses, I combine city-level sex ratio data from the U.S. census with microdata on unmarried couples who...
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Women’s Progress for Men’s Gain? Gender-Specific Changes in the Return to Education as Measured by Family Standard of Living, 1990 to 2009–2011
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1743–1772.
Published: 15 August 2017
... in the marriage market, the likelihood of educational marrying up has substantially increased for men over time while women’s likelihood has decreased. Sensitivity analyses show that the greater improvement in the family standard of living for men than for women is not limited to prime working-age persons...
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Trends in age at marriage in postwar Ireland
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 187–202.
Published: 01 May 1972
... five years' gap between the ages of the bride and groom rose from 49 percent in 1946 to 71 percent in 1969. The percentage of marriages in which the groom was ten or more years older than the bride has fallen from 22 to seven percent. The evidence suggests that the “marriage market” became less...
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Opportunities to Meet: Occupational Education and Marriage Formation in Young Adulthood
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1319–1344.
Published: 01 July 2014
...David McClendon; Janet Chen-Lan Kuo; R. Kelly Raley Abstract Explanations for the positive association between education and marriage in the United States emphasize the economic and cultural attractiveness of having a college degree in the marriage market. However, educational attainment may also...
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Marriage Age, Social Status, and Intergenerational Effects in Uganda
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2123–2146.
Published: 02 December 2019
... an enhancement of women’s agency within their household and positive assortative matching in the marriage market. By pointing to the beneficial consequences of delaying marriage, this research calls for concerted policy action to prevent child marriage. 01 10 2019 02 12 2019 © Population...
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The Harmonic Mean as the Basis of a Realistic Two-Sex Marriage Model
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Demography (1981) 18 (2): 201–216.
Published: 01 May 1981
... groups. The harmonic mean consistency condition is shown to be fully sensitive to the competitive nature of the “marriage market.” When compared with alternative approaches to the two-sex problem in the context of data for Sweden, 1961–64, the simple harmonic mean method yields results fairly similar...
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