Group Differences in Economic Opportunity and the Timing of Marriage: Blacks and Whites in the Rural South, 1910

Landale, Nancy S.; Tolnay, Stewart E.

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“…Previous studies examining land use and marriage have looked at historical patterns in areas such as the United States and Ireland (Guest, 1981;Kent, 2002;Landale, 1989;Landale & Tolnay, 1991;Strassmann & Clarke, 1998). Contemporary transitions in land use, however, are occurring much more quickly in developing societies today, and how these transitions influence marriage remains understudied.…”

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Land Use and Marriage Timing in Nepal

Yabiku

2006

Popul Environ

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I examine the relationship between patterns of land use and marriage timing in the Chitwan Valley, a rural area in south-central Nepal. In this setting, I conceptualize a relevant dimension of land use as the portion of land in each neighborhood devoted to agriculture. Using discrete-time event history models, I examine the relationship between the proportion of land devoted to agriculture and the rate of marriage among 811 never-married individuals aged 15-20 years. Agricultural land has a positive association with marriage rates. As potential intervening mechanisms between agricultural land and marriage rates, I propose nonfamily organizations, school and work activities, and local marriage markets. A portion of the relationship between land and marriage rates appears to be mediated through the accessibility of nonfamily employers. Respondents' actual employment activities, however, fail to mediate the effects of agricultural land or nonfamily employers. The precise mechanisms linking land use to marriage remain unclear.

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Land Use and Marriage Timing in Nepal

Yabiku

2006

Popul Environ

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“…If women outnumbered men in a particular group, they faced the choice of marrying outside their ethnic group or not marrying at all. Landale and Tolnay (1993) show that the number of coresident ethnics is unrelated to marital status; their measure of "ethnic concentration," however, does not distinguish by sex. Most immigrant groups were characterized by an excess of men.…”

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“…In addition to serving as an indicator of exposure to the risk of childbearing, marriage age reflects prevailing structural factors influencing life-cycle changes, such as partner availability and employment opportunities (Landale 1989;Landale and Tolnay 1991;Lichter, LeClere, and McLaughlin 1991). Less often approach is more sensitive to potentially large cultural and ethnic group differences in age at marriage and also provides a more precise examination of generational change in marriage timing.…”

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Women's Marital Timing at the Turn of the Century: Generational and Ethnic Differences

Sassler

1997

The Sociological Quarterly

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This article utilizes accelerated failure time models to estimate the effect of immigration, generation, and ethnicity on timing of first marriage among women living in the United States in 1910. Although historical research suggests that family need resulted in marital delay, I argue that family strategies for socioeconomic mobility is a more likely explanation. Second-generation women from groups experiencing substantial socioeconomic mobility across the generations demonstrate the greatest likelihood of marital delay; this is particularly notable for Jewish women. Migration does not have the expected delaying effect on marriage; those arriving as children or single adults marry at younger ages than either those who wed in the country of origin or their second-generation counterparts. Findings are discussed in light of ethnic group stratification and the importance of integrating women into mobility frameworks.

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“…This is apparent in studies of family formation that (a) emphasize linkages between capital assets (e.g., landownership) and men's ability to marry (Landale, 1989;Landale and Tolnay, 1991), (b) stress local shortages of economically attractive men (Brien, 1997;Wood, 1995), (c) emphasize that declining marital incentives have gone hand in hand with women's entry into the workplace and the rise in real wages (i.e., the -independence hypothesis‖) (Clarkberg, 1999;McLanahan and Casper, 1995), and (d) argue that welfare benefits have created economic disincentives to marriage among low-income populations (Moffitt, 1992;Lichter, McLaughlin, and Ribar, 1997). Our working assumption is that marital opportunities and constraints are inextricably linked to national economic and employment restructuring, which are played out in regional and local employment opportunities and wage rates.…”

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Economic Restructuring and the Retreat from Marriage

Lichter

McLaughlin

Ribar

2002

Social Science Research

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Abstract:Our objective is to link recent U.S. marriage trends to changes in the employment and earnings of the marriageeligible population, welfare benefit levels, and macroeconomic performance, which are played out differently across states. Specifically, we link pooled cross-sectional data from the 1986-1997 annual demographic supplements of the March Current Population Survey to state-year-specific indicators of economic performance from the Regional Economic Information System. We use these data to estimate reduced-form models of the economic, institutional, and demographic determinants of individual marriage outcomes. We also estimate endogenous switching regression models of marriage which take into account women's expected incomes inside and outside of marriage. Our results provide several conclusions. First, the -retreat from marriage‖ continued unabated during the economic recovery period of the 1990s. Second, our reduced-form results reveal that the recent economic recovery has, on balance, dampened the downward trend in marriage; the percentage married would be roughly three points lower in 1997 if state employment and earnings had remained at their 1986 levels. Third, the effects of state economic restructuring were highly differentiated, with negative effects on marriage, especially among the younger, less educated, and racial minority women. Fourth, results from our endogenous switching regression models provide only modest evidence for the economic model of marriage and call into question the appropriateness of strictly economic explanations of declining marriage.

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Group Differences in Economic Opportunity and the Timing of Marriage: Blacks and Whites in the Rural South, 1910

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Land Use and Marriage Timing in Nepal

Land Use and Marriage Timing in Nepal

Women's Marital Timing at the Turn of the Century: Generational and Ethnic Differences

Economic Restructuring and the Retreat from Marriage

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