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Essays on the economics of marriage.

Nandi, Alita.

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紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays on the economics of marriage./
作者:	Nandi, Alita.
面頁冊數:	122 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4274.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-11A.
標題:	Black Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3241697
ISBN:	9780542965388

Essays on the economics of marriage.
Nandi, Alita.

Essays on the economics of marriage. - 122 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4274.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2007.

Recent U.S. policies that promote marriage have prompted researchers to reexamine the reasons for the fact that black marriage rates are more than 20 percentage points lower than white marriage rates. In the first essay, "The Role of Education in the Marital Decisions of Blacks and Whites" I ask how much of the black-white marriage gap would be eliminated if racial differences in schooling attainment were reduced. I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to simultaneously estimate schooling and marriage models. I find that increasing the schooling of black men by one year increases the predicted probability of marriage (by age 35) by more than 5%. The estimated effect is much smaller for white men and black women, and it is negative for white women. Using these estimated coefficients, I predict that eliminating black-white differences in schooling (which I simulate by assigning all blacks the mean schooling of their white counterparts) would decrease the gap in marriage probabilities by 17% for men and 4.5% for women. I conclude that public policy designed to increase education can have small but nontrivial effects on the black-white marriage gap.

ISBN: 9780542965388Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a U.S. public policy promotes both marriage and labor market participation as strategies for improving the economic welfare of low-income women and their children. In the second essay, "Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation" I ask which of these mechanisms (marriage or employment) leads to greater economic gains---especially for those women who are predisposed towards poverty. In light of the dramatic rise in cohabitation rates in recent years, I also include cohabitation as a third mechanism for improving well-being. Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I estimate a fixed-effects model of household income (adjusted for household composition) to assess the within-person gains associated with changes in employment and marital status; I allow the effects of employment on household income to differ for single, cohabiting, and married women. Focusing first on "poor" women (those who ever received welfare), I predict that the log household income of single, nonemployed women increases by 0.80 if they enter a cohabiting union, 1.04 if they marry, 0.76 if they work part-time (1000 hours/year), and 1.16 if they work full-time (2000 hours/year). The finding that the biggest predicted gain is from entering full-time employment (while remaining single) reflects the fact that the expected earnings of these low-wage women exceeds the share of adjusted earnings that they can be expected to gain by marrying a (typically low-wage) man. When I consider transitions of women who are already employed part-time, I find that their expected gains from cohabitation and marriage are virtually identical (0.48 and 0.47, respectively) and that union formation now has a greater expected benefit than moving to full-time employment, which I predict raises log income by 0.40. When I focus on nonpoor women, I find that single, part-time employed women are expected to gain 0.64, 0.56 and 0.54, respectively, when they enter a cohabiting union, marry and move to full-time employment; each of these gains is greater than what I predict for their poor counterparts. This is not surprising given the higher earnings potential of these women as well as that of their spouses and partners.
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