-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to … marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …

aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US …

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. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …

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 …

marriage to a native spouse facilitates business survival. -- Business ownership ; migration ; native spouse ; social networks …

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

neighbourhoods. Our study addresses this research gap and examines the tendencies of migration among mixed ethnic unions in … ethnic unions varied greatly with the ethnicity of the ethnic minority partner. -- mixed ethnic unions ; migration …

importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage … from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- immigration ; marriage ; sex ratio imbalance ; international marriages ; cross …

as well as access to native spouses' networks and contacts. However, marriage choice is endogenous, unobserved factors … estimate marriage premiums taking into account individual heterogeneity. This is done for three types of marriages …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed …