| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP7166 |
| DP7166 Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production | |
| Daniel S. Hamermesh; Michael Burda | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-02-09 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are substantially more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We argue that differences in height distributions, combined with a simple preference for a taller husband, can explain a large proportion of these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this hypothesis using data from the Health Survey for England and the Millenium Cohort Study, which contains valuable and unique information on heights of married couples. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Intermarriage Gender Height |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp7166 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535996 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel S. Hamermesh,Michael Burda. DP7166 Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production. 2009. |
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