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Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through … which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be better able to adapt to different cultures making …

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Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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