Racial Differences in the Effect of Marriageable Males on Female Family Headship

Craigie, Terry‐Ann; Myers, Samuel L.; Darity, William A.

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“…There is a larger own race marriage market for Black women in the military as education increases given that there are proportionally more highly educated Black men in the military (Table 2). Consider that an increase in the number of marriageable Black men substantially increases the likelihood of marriage for Black women (Craigie et al, 2018; Testa & Kroghn, 1995). However, there is a disproportionate number of Black women in the military (14%) compared with only 8% for Black men (Table 2).…”

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Interracial Marriage and the U.S. Military: A Test of Status Exchange and Own Race Preferences

Houseworth

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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What roles do racial social distance and individual identity play in determining intermarriage among Black and White individuals in the U.S. military? This research uses interracial marriage as a measure of social distance and hypothesizes that the military lessens the social distance between White and Black individuals. More specifically, this article examines the relative education levels of Black and White married individuals in the military to test theories of market and dyadic exchange using the 2015–2019 American Community Survey (ACS) data. Evidence of weaker racial group boundaries is found for Black male and White female pairings where at least one spouse is in the military. There is also evidence of stronger own race preferences among Black women in the military.

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Interracial Marriage and the U.S. Military: A Test of Status Exchange and Own Race Preferences

Houseworth

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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“…While a focus on female incarceration is justified in its own right, there are legitimate concerns about how these changes affect other social and economic outcomes for both men and women. For example, previous research, focusing on males, has examined how incarceration affects employment (Myers & Samuel, 1983), marriage rates (Craigie et al, 2018), schooling and labor supply (Charles & Luoh, 2010; Mechoulan, 2011) and thus on earnings inequality (Darity et al, 1998). In short, differential changes in female incarceration are likely to have impacts on other social and economic outcomes among both men and women.…”

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Determinants of Racial Disparities in Female Incarceration Rates, 2000–2018

Myers

Sabol

2021

The Review of Black Political Economy

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In The Growth of Incarceration in the United States, the National Research Council documents the large and persistent racial disparities in imprisonment that accompanied the more than quadrupling of the U.S. incarceration rate since the 1980s. Largely unnoticed by policy makers and opinion leaders in recent years is an unprecedented decrease in the number of African American women incarcerated at the same time that the number of white women in prison has grown to new heights. The result of these recent changes is a near convergence in black-white female incarceration rates from 2000 to 2016. In some states, the changes occurred abruptly and almost instantaneously. In other states, the convergence has been gradual. We find that changes in the population composition—the fraction of the population that is black—was the major contributor to the decline in the disparity among women. We also find that race-specific differences in drug overdose deaths stemming from the recent increases in opioid use lowered the disparity by increasing the white female imprisonment rate and lowering it for black women.

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“…Virtually all these studies found that the availability of marriageable men had a significant impact on marriage rates of women ( Cragie, Darity, and Myers 2018 ). At the same time, the literature found that only a fraction of the marriage differential between Whites and Blacks can be ascribed to differences in the availability of marriageable men (e.g., Brien 1997 ; Cohen and Pepin 2018 ; Darity, Myers, and Bowman 1995 ; Lichter et al 1992 ; Lichter, LeClere, and Mclaughlin 1991 ; Lloyd and South 1996 ; McLaughlin and Lichter 1997 ; Raley 1996 ; Wood 1995 ).…”

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Race, class, and marriage: Components of race differences in men’s first marriage rates, United States, 1960–2019

Ruggles¹

2022

DemRes

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BACKGROUND 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 of women. These studies concluded that the availability of marriageable men can explain only a fraction of race differences in marriage. I argue that this finding may reflect errors in the measurement of the availability of marriageable spouses. METHODSMy analysis assesses marriage rates from the perspective of men instead of women, allowing direct assessment of men's economic positions without resorting to fuzzy spatial indicators. I develop new measures of first marriage rates for the 1960-1980 censuses and combine them with survey-based measures for 2008-2019. I use classic decomposition methods to assess the changing relationship of economic composition to race differences in male first marriage rates over the 1960-2019 period. RESULTSThe analysis shows that in the mid-to late 20 th century, race differences in economic composition were sufficiently large to account for most race differences in first marriage rates, but the size of the economic component declined dramatically over time. CONCLUSIONSWith the decline of male-breadwinner families since the late 20 th century, the role of male economic circumstances for race differences in marriage rates has diminished, but it remains substantial. CONTRIBUTIONLeveraging a new research strategy and a new measure of first marriage, this analysis provides a consistent decomposition of race differences in first marriage rates over six decades.

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Racial Differences in the Effect of Marriageable Males on Female Family Headship

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

Interracial Marriage and the U.S. Military: A Test of Status Exchange and Own Race Preferences

Interracial Marriage and the U.S. Military: A Test of Status Exchange and Own Race Preferences

Determinants of Racial Disparities in Female Incarceration Rates, 2000–2018

Race, class, and marriage: Components of race differences in men’s first marriage rates, United States, 1960–2019

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