This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the … was a trend toward earlier and more extensive marriage from about 1900 up to the 1960s. At this point, coincident with the … end of the 'Baby Boom,' there has been a movement to later marriage for both males and females among whites, blacks, and …

manner in order to improve their son's relative attractiveness for marriage. The pressure on savings spills over to other …

estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects …

composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the … population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical propositions …

Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market should affect marriage decisions, we use … and child outcomes for blacks and Hispanics, at least for the children of women whose marriage decisions are most affected … may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child …