Organizers:

Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas
William E. Spriggs, Howard University

Session Chairs:

William E. Spriggs, Howard University

Papers:

"Declining Fertility of Married African American Women"
William E. Spriggs, Howard University
Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas (Contact Author)

"Is the Emerging Black Middle Class Never-Married and Living Alone?: The 'Love Jones Cohort'"
Kris Marsh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contact Author)
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Philip Cohen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lynne Casper, University of Southern California
Danielle Salters, Duke University

"Shedding ‘Light’ On Marriage: The Influence of Skin Shade in Marriage Markets"
Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University
Darrick Hamilton, Milano--The New School for Management and Urban Policy (Contact Author)
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University

"The Male Marital Wage Differential: Race, Training, and Fixed Effects"
William M. Rodgers, III, Rutgers University-Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (Contact Author)
Leslie Stratton, Virginia Commonwealth University