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positive impact of immigration on native men's employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of …In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …
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the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … intermarried families stresses the importance of intermarriage in assimilation process. Our results are robust to different …
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formation and dissolution dynamics in recent immigration countries …
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This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of traditional elderly support structures, where sons live...
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This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to … intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in … the implementation of interior immigration enforcement from 2005 to 2017, we find that a one standard deviation increase …
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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
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This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education.However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …
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This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in … the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. A novel source of exogenous variation in the employment … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
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