assimilation, as measured by job occupation scores, marriage to a US native and take-up of US citizenship.We examine economic …

examination of the effects of human capital on one dimension of assimilation, immigrant intermarriage. I argue that there are … three primary mechanisms through which human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. First, human capital may make … the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be …

potentially important implications for post-immigration policies indicating that assimilation and integration policies may be …

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 …

to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration …

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability ….We suggest explanations for these patterns based in part on differentials in the associations of age at marriage with education …

can be explained by increases in the returns to a college education.However, we find increasing intermarriage premiums …

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 …