The Impact of Gender Imbalance on Marriage Markets

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The Impact of Gender Imbalance on Marriage Markets
David Brooks Wendy Ham Nathan Hodas Brian
Hollar Liliana Salvador Guimei Zhu
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Cities Education Differences
(From the American Council of Education report on
Higher Education )
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Sub-Populations and Countries

• Black Women
• 43 of black women have never married
• Black women are most unpartnered group in US --
  possibly the world

• China
• Biggest demographic time bomb in the world
• Selective abortions
• Sex ratio 1.2
• Black market for boys and brides
• Rising violence?

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What About Religious Groups?

• Women tend to be more religious than men
• Shortage of devout men
• Sexual mores
• Within group marriage
• Low sex ratios among singles

(25.9 of men and 36.1 of women attend church
weekly)
(Data via General Social Survey, 2000-2006)
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NetLogo Future Extensions

• Future Extensions
• Tweak parameters in the model to generate more
  realistic outcomes
• Incorporate the effects of social capital on
  group persistence and investigate how it impacts
  relationship formation
• Unlocking the mysteries of true love!

• NetLogo Model
• Modeling marriage markets
• Women prefer men with equal or higher incomes
• Men prefer women of equal or lower ages
• Exploring variations in sex-ratios gender-gaps
  in pay to mimic various populations
• Vary male female preferences by sex-ratio