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Too Few Good Men? Available Partners and Single Motherhood among Latinas, African Americans, and Whites

University of California, San Diego

Vilma Ortiz

University of California, Los Angeles

The authors test whether structural indicators of mate availability—Wilson’s marriageable pool and sex ratio arguments—help explain individual-level racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of single motherhood among young women. Using the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data for greater Los Angeles, they add mate availability measures to individual-level models. Quantity alone (sex ratio) is unrelated to single motherhood, but relative availability of employed men accounts for a significant share of what otherwise might be considered individual-level differences among immigrant Latina, native-born Latina, Black, and White women. Higher rates of single motherhood for native-born Latinas and Blacks appear to be partly due to poor marriageable pools.

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