The relationship between sex ratios and marriage rates in South Africa

References

• Abramitzky , R . 2009 . Delavande, A. and Vasconcelos, L. , Marrying up: the role of sex ratio in assortative matching. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1233882 (accessed 11 August 2011)
   Google Scholar
• Anderson , S . 2007 . The economics of dowry and brideprice . Journal of Economic Perspectives , 21 : 151 – 74 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Angrist , J . 2002 . How do sex ratios affect marriage and labour markets? Evidence from America's second generation . The Quarterly Journal of Economics , 117 : 997 – 1038 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Becker , G . 1973 . Theory of marriage: part I . Journal of Political Economy , 81 : 814 – 46 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Becker , G . 1981 . A Treatise on the Family , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Bennett , NG , Bloom , DE and Craig , PH . 1989 . The divergence of black and white marriage patterns . American Journal of Sociology , 95 : 692 – 722 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bhorat , H . 2006 . “ Labour supply and demand constraints on employment creation: a microeconomic analysis ” . In The Development Decade? Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994–2004 , Edited by: Padayachee , V . 275 – 301 . Cape Town : HSRC Press .
   Google Scholar
• Borooah , VK . 2002 . Does unemployment make men less ‘marriageable’? . Applied Economics , 34 : 1571 – 82 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brien , MJ . 1997 . Racial differences in marriage and the role of marriage markets . The Journal of Human Resources , 32 : 741 – 78 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brien , MJ and Sheran , ME . 2003 . “ The economics of marriage and household formation ” . In Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies , Edited by: Grossbard-Schechtman , S . 37 – 54 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Budlender , D , Chobokoane , N and Sandile , S . 2004 . Marriage patterns in South Africa: methodological and substantive issues . South African Journal of Demography , 9 : 1 – 26 .
   Google Scholar
• Casale , D , Muller , C and Posel , D . 2004 . Two million net new jobs: a reconsideration of the rise in employment in South Africa, 1995–2003 . The South African Journal of Economics , 72 : 97 – 1002 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Casale , D and Posel , D . 2010 . The male marital earnings premium in the context of bride wealth payments: evidence from South Africa . Economic Development and Cultural Change , 58 : 211 – 30 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Charles , KK and Luoh , MC . 2005 . Male incarceration the marriage market and female outcomes, University of Michigan Working Paper
   Google Scholar
• Fairlie , RW . 2006 . An extension of the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models IZA Discussion Paper No. 1917
   Google Scholar
• Goldscheider , FK and Waite , LJ . 1986 . Sex differences in the entry into marriage . The American Journal of Sociology , 92 : 91 – 109 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gustafsson , S and Worku , SY . 2006 . Marriage markets and single motherhood in South Africa Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 102/3
   Google Scholar
• Hosegood , V , McGrath , N and Moultrie , T . 2009 . Dispensing with marriage: marital and partnership trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000–2006 . Demographic Research , 20 : 279 – 312 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hunter , M . 2004 . Masculinities and multiple sex partners in KwaZulu-Natal: the making and unmaking of Isoka . Transformation , 54 : 123 – 53 .
   Google Scholar
• Kaarsholm , P . 2005 . Moral panic and cultural mobilization: responses to transition, crime and HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal . Development and Change , 36 : 133 – 56 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kalule-Sabiti , I , Palamuleni , M , Makiwane , M and Amoateng , AY . 2007 . “ Family formation and dissolution patterns ” . In Families and Households in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Socio-demographic Perspectives , Edited by: Amoateng , AY and Heaton , TB . 89 – 112 . Cape Town : HSRC Press .
   Google Scholar
• Lichter , DT , LeClere , FB and McLaughlin , DK . 1991 . Local marriage markets and the marital behavior of black and white women . The American Journal of Sociology , 57 : 843 – 67 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lichter , DT , McLaughlin , DK , Kephart , G and Landry , DJ . 1992 . Race and the retreat from marriage: a shortage of marriageable men? . American Sociological Review , 57 : 781 – 99 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Posel , D and Casale , D . 2003 . What has been happening to internal labour migration in South Africa, 1993–1999? . The South African Journal of Economics , 71 : 455 – 79 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Posel , D and Casale , D . 2006 . “ Internal migration and household poverty in post-apartheid South Africa ” . In Poverty and Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa , Edited by: Kanbur , R and Bhorat , H . 351 – 65 . Pretoria : Human Sciences Research Council Press .
   Google Scholar
• Schoen , R and Kluegel , JR . 1988 . The widening gap in black and white marriage rates: the impact of population composition and differential marriage propensities . American Sociological Review , 53 : 895 – 907 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• South , JS and Lloyd , KM . 1992 . Marriage opportunities and family formation: further implications of imbalanced sex ratios . Journal of Marriage and Family , 54 : 440 – 51 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Staples , R . 1985 . Changes in black family structure: the conflict between family ideology and structural conditions . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 47 : 1005 – 13 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson , WJ . 1987 . The Truly Disadvantaged , Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Wood , RG . 1995 . Marriage rates and marriageable men: a test of the Wilson hypothesis . The Journal of Human Resources , 30 : 163 – 93 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar