Gender contrasts in partner supply: marriage market estimates and their implications
Gender contrasts in partner supply: marriage market estimates and their implications
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.
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Sigle-Rushton, Wendy
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2004
Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Sigle-Rushton, Wendy
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Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire and Sigle-Rushton, Wendy
(2004)
Gender contrasts in partner supply: marriage market estimates and their implications
(S3RI Applications and Policy Working Papers, A04/07)
Southampton, GB.
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
47pp.
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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.
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Published date: 2004
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Máire Ní Bhrolcháin
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Wendy Sigle-Rushton
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