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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP13275
	DP13275 Is Marriage for White People? Incarceration, Unemployment, and the Racial Marriage Divide
	Elizabeth Caucutt; Nezih Guner; Christopher Rauh
发表日期	2018-10-22
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	The black-white differences in marriages in the US are striking. While 83% of white women between ages 25 and 54 were ever married in 2006, only 56% of black women were: a gap of 27 percentage points. Wilson (1987) suggests that the lack of marriageable black men due to incarceration and unemployment is responsible for low marriage rates among the black population. In this paper, we take a dynamic look at the Wilson Hypothesis. We argue that the current incarceration policies and labor market prospects make black men riskier spouses than white men. They are not only more likely to be, but also to become, unemployed or incarcerated than their white counterparts. We develop an equilibrium search model of marriage, divorce and labor supply that takes into account the transitions between employment, unemployment and prison for individuals by race, education, and gender. We estimate model parameters to be consistent with key statistics of the US economy. We then investigate how much of the racial divide in marriage is due to differences in the riskiness of potential spouses. We find that differences in incarceration and employment dynamics between black and white men can account for half of the existing black-white marriage gap in the data
主题	Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Marriage Race Incarceration Inequality Unemployment
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp13275
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/542085
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Elizabeth Caucutt,Nezih Guner,Christopher Rauh. DP13275 Is Marriage for White People? Incarceration, Unemployment, and the Racial Marriage Divide. 2018.