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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15484
	DP15484 Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
	Daniele Paserman; Claudia Olivetti; Laura Salisbury; E. Anna Weber
发表日期	2020-11-23
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic gradient becomes steeper over time. We investigate the degree to which it can be explained by occupational income divergence across geographic regions. Regional divergence explains about one half of the socioeconomic divergence in the probability of marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign-born across states drive most of these differences, while other factors (the scholarization rate, the sex ratio and the share in manufacturing) play a smaller role.
主题	Economic History ; Labour Economics
关键词	Marriage Assortative mating Gender Intergenerational mobility Regional convergence
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15484
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/544480
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Daniele Paserman,Claudia Olivetti,Laura Salisbury,et al. DP15484 Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940. 2020.