Anthropometry of love Height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages

被引:23
作者
Belot, Michele [3 ]
Fidrmuc, Jan [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Brunel Univ, Dept Econ & Finance, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[2] Brunel Univ, CEDI, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[3] Univ Oxford Nuffield Coll, Ctr Expt Social Sci, Oxford OX1 1NF, England
关键词
Intermarriage; Gender; Height; INTERMARRIAGE; MEN;
D O I
10.1016/j.ehb.2010.09.004
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Both in the UK and in the US we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women but the opposite is true for Chinese Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women We argue that differences in height distributions combined with a simple preference for the husband to be taller than the wife can help explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries Blacks are taller than Asians and we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites We provide empirical support for this hypothesis using data from the Millennium Cohort Study Specifically we find that ethnic differences in propensity to intermarry with Whites shrink when we control for the proportion of suitable partners with respect to height (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved
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页码:361 / 372
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