Nakosteen, Robert A.; Zimmer, Michael A. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20
race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … race gap is explained in part by disparities in unobserved earning capacities between black and white men. In doing so … white residual earnings, the race gap disappears and even shows strong signs of greater marriage propensities in the black …