MARRIAGE RATES AND MARRIAGEABLE MEN - A TEST OF THE WILSON HYPOTHESIS

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WOOD, RG
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This article examines the hypothesis that recent declines in black marriage rates have been driven by a declining pool of high-earning, young black men. Using 1970 and 1980 SMSA-level Census data to estimate a fixed-effect model of black marriage rates, I find that declines in the pool of ''marriageable'' black men ale responsible for only a small fraction of the decline in black marriage rates. My estimates suggest that this decline in the number of high-earning, young black men explains only 3 to 4 percent of the decline in black marriage rates during the 1970s.
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