Anthropometry of love Height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages

作者：Belot Michele; Fidrmuc Jan^*

来源：Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8(3): 361-372.

DOI：10.1016/j.ehb.2010.09.004

• Intermarriage
• Gender
• Height

Both in the UK and in the US we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women but the opposite is true for Chinese Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women We argue that differences in height distributions combined with a simple preference for the husband to be taller than the wife can help explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries Blacks are taller than Asians and we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites We provide empirical support for this hypothesis using data from the Millennium Cohort Study Specifically

• 出版日期2010-12