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The Black-White Gap in Non Marital Fertility: Education and Mates in Segmented Marriage Markets

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This study is the first to find that mate availability explains much of the race gap in non marital fertility in the United States. Both a general and an education-based metric have strong effects. The novel statistical power arises from difference-in-differences for blacks and whites, multiple cohorts, periods, and coefficient restrictions consistent with both the data and models in which differences in mate availability can induce blacks and whites to respond in opposite directions to changes in mate availability. Results are robust to several alternative specifications and tests and appear relevant where marriages are segmented along racial, religious, or other lines. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

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  • Joe Stone, 2012. "The Black-White Gap in Non Marital Fertility: Education and Mates in Segmented Marriage Markets," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 328-336, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jlabre:v:33:y:2012:i:3:p:328-336
    DOI: 10.1007/s12122-012-9135-z
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    Keywords

    Race; Marriage; Fertility; Education; A10; J12; J13;
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    • J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - General
    • A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General

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