surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds …

the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be …

.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … likely to arise solely from legal status acquired through marriage or characteristics of native spouses. We then present …

which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be better able to adapt to different cultures making …

Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …

by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. …