Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2009
Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are … likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We argue that differences in height distributions, combined with a … simple preference for a taller husband, can explain a large proportion of these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks …