Gender contrasts in partner supply: marriage market estimates and their implications
Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire and Sigle-Rushton, Wendy (2004) Gender contrasts in partner supply: marriage market estimates and their implications. Southampton, GB, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, 47pp. (S3RI Applications and Policy Working Papers,(A04/07))
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Description/Abstract
Marriage market estimates by sex and single years of age are made for the US and England and Wales in 1990-1991, using explicit data on age preferences. Availability is strongly differentiated by age and sex, being inversely associated with female age and positively with male age. Decomposition shows that young women are advantaged largely by age preferences while older men are advantaged by population age-sex and marital status structure. Most men marry at ages when partners are in short supply; this finding is examined in detail. Some implications for gender power relations through the life course are considered.
| Item Type: | Monograph (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Related URLs: | http://www.s3ri.soton.ac.uk/pu...a04-07.pdf |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute |
| ePrint ID: | 8159 |
| Deposited On: | 11 Jul 2004 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2011 16:39 |
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