Sure, maybe it’s centuries of colonialist perceptions of certain racial groups as “masculine” or “feminine,” “dominant” or “submissive.” But maybe it’s just a height thing.
A recent Center for Economic and Policy Research discussion paper looks at pronounced asymmetries in interracial couples. Why is it, for example, that in the United States and Britain most blacks who marry whites are black men marrying white women, rather than black women marrying white men? And why do most Chinese who “outmarry” exhibit the opposite trend (i.e., more Chinese women marry whites than Chinese men do)?
Economists and sociologists have previously proposed models focusing on education and socioeconomic status in order to explain these patterns, apparently without much luck. Two economists, Michèle Belot at Oxford and Jan Fidrmuc at Brunel University, have proposed a simpler alternative — height:
We argue that a simple preference for a taller husband (or shorter wife) can explain part of the gender-specifi…c asymmetries across ethnic groups in the propensity to outmarry. Blacks are taller than Asians, and their height distribution is closer to whites. Because they are taller, black men have better prospects on the white marriage market than Asian men. For women, the reverse is true. Because Asians are relatively short on average, women fare substantially better on the white marriage market than black women.
The paper focuses on British data, but considers American marital patterns as well. In their conclusion, the authors say their findings have implications for immigration and competition for mates:
These results … also point out a previously unrecognized implication of large immigration flows: they can potentially alter the sex ratio on the marriage market — and in turn the bargaining power of the two genders — even if their gender composition is roughly balanced. For example, a large inflow of East Asian (and Chinese) immigrants to the UK or the US will effectively increase the marriage-market opportunities, and the bargaining power, of white men relatively to white women, even if the influx is balanced with respect to genders. And, rather ironically, the relaxation of laws or social norms against interethnic marriages may implicitly increase the relative bargaining power of one gender in comparison to the other; and may even disadvantage some ethnic-minority individuals (in particular black women) in the marriage market. continues here
A recent Center for Economic and Policy Research discussion paper looks at pronounced asymmetries in interracial couples. Why is it, for example, that in the United States and Britain most blacks who marry whites are black men marrying white women, rather than black women marrying white men? And why do most Chinese who “outmarry” exhibit the opposite trend (i.e., more Chinese women marry whites than Chinese men do)?
Economists and sociologists have previously proposed models focusing on education and socioeconomic status in order to explain these patterns, apparently without much luck. Two economists, Michèle Belot at Oxford and Jan Fidrmuc at Brunel University, have proposed a simpler alternative — height:
We argue that a simple preference for a taller husband (or shorter wife) can explain part of the gender-specifi…c asymmetries across ethnic groups in the propensity to outmarry. Blacks are taller than Asians, and their height distribution is closer to whites. Because they are taller, black men have better prospects on the white marriage market than Asian men. For women, the reverse is true. Because Asians are relatively short on average, women fare substantially better on the white marriage market than black women.
The paper focuses on British data, but considers American marital patterns as well. In their conclusion, the authors say their findings have implications for immigration and competition for mates:
These results … also point out a previously unrecognized implication of large immigration flows: they can potentially alter the sex ratio on the marriage market — and in turn the bargaining power of the two genders — even if their gender composition is roughly balanced. For example, a large inflow of East Asian (and Chinese) immigrants to the UK or the US will effectively increase the marriage-market opportunities, and the bargaining power, of white men relatively to white women, even if the influx is balanced with respect to genders. And, rather ironically, the relaxation of laws or social norms against interethnic marriages may implicitly increase the relative bargaining power of one gender in comparison to the other; and may even disadvantage some ethnic-minority individuals (in particular black women) in the marriage market. continues here
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