black/white educational distributions in marriage markets.The first contribution of this study is to provide an answer to … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability …

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …

Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are … the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter educations with the exception of young and middle-aged urban males who …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and …). Population census data are used to estimate gender-separated urban labor force participation rates (lfpr) using logit regressions …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be …

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability ….We suggest explanations for these patterns based in part on differentials in the associations of age at marriage with education …

high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision …