BACKGROUND In the US and UK, more Black men are married to White women than vice versa and there are more White men married to Asian women than vice versa. Models of interracial marriage, based on the exchange of racial status for other capital, cannot explain these asymmetries. A new explanation is offered based on the relative perceived facial attractiveness of the different race-by-gender gr...

The present study was conducted in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The aim of research study was to assess the changing Family Composition, Structure and Practices in urban area of Kanpur City. Purposively 80 families of middle socioeconomic strata were selected for the study. A survey was conducted using a selfstructured questionnaire with close ended questions, to collect the data regarding...

This research examines how marital status modifies the relationship between functional limitations and two aspects of psychological distress—depression and anger. Analyses of a multiwave national probability survey show that marriage weakens the relationship between functional limitations and depression, but this moderation is specific to older men. Functional limitations are not significantly ...

In this issue of the Journal, Dupre et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2009;170(5):546-555) use data from a nationally representative cohort of older US adults to examine the association of current marital status, timing of first marriage, number and kind of transitions out of marriage, and durations spent in various marital statuses with the risk of all-cause mortality. Their study offers a wealth of emp...

PURPOSE The study was conducted to assess the marital status and fertility in adults with epilepsy. METHODS The study group consisted of 240 subjects with epilepsy aged 15 and above, Unmarried males (m) 55, unmarried females (f) 73 and married males 48, married females 64. Data was collected according to standard protocol regarding age, sex, age at marriage and onset of seizure, effect of epi...

Married men's wage premium is often attributed to within-household specialization: men can devote more effort to wage-earning when their wives assume responsibility for household labor. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the specialization hypothesis, arguing that, if specialization causes the male marriage premium, married women should experience wage losses. Furthermore, specialization ...

For modern Western societies with a regime of monogamy, it has recently been demonstrated that the socioeconomic status of men is positively associated with being or having been married. This study aims to compare marriage patterns (if a person has been married at least once) for cultures with a tradition of monogamy and polygyny. As no worldwide data on polygyny exist, religion was used as a p...

This paper discusses "Pregnant Marriage according to Religious Court Judges from the Maslahah Perspective" by revealing problems, namely: (1) How is implementation of Article 53 KHI regarding pregnant marriage, (2) What are implications implementing marriage? And (3) analysis judges religious courts on concerning marriage and pregnancy a maslahah perspective? The Courts do not directly handle c...

Marital status and labor supply decisions could be correlated on the unobservable. Using South Korean data, this paper exploits exogenous selection into marriage caused by an eccentric cultural phenomenon—preferences for wives’ zodiacal signs—to estimate the causal effect of marital status on female labor force participation. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The existing literature on marriage and fertility decisions pays little attention to the roles played by risk preferences and uncertainty. However given uncertainty regarding the availability of suitable marriage partners, the ability to contracept, and the ability to conceive, women's risk preferences might be expected to play an important role in marriage and fertility timing decisions. By us...