Daniel T. Lichter

TL;DR: In this article, a search-theoretic model of the transition to first marriage among young women in the United States was provided, which measured the pool of unmarried men relative to unmarried women in local marriage markets as well as the economic attractiveness of available men for each unmarried woman in the NLSY [National Longitudinal Survey of Youth].

TL;DR: The authors analyzed trends in intermarriage in light of new assimilation theory, recent changes in racial classification, and rapid demographic changes in American society and found that changes in marital assimilation have taken on momentum of their own; that is, America's growing biracial population has fueled the growth of interracial marriages with whites.

TL;DR: The authors found that even in the late 1980s, American couples exhibited highly sex-segregated family work patterns, including those couples in which the male partner contributes many hours to housework.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used local area data from the newly released 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample (D file) to provide a direct test of several alternative explanations of U.S. marital behavior and of black and white differences in marriage rates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the enormous scale of rural-urban interdependence and boundary crossing, shifting and blurring along many dimensions of community life over the past several decades, and the symmetrical rather than asymmetrical influences between urban and rural areas, i.e., on bidirectional relational aspects of spatial categories.