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Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2020
This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to …, importantly, sheds light on the recent growth of intermarriage among Mexican immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843714
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Police Trust and Domestic Violence : Evidence from Immigration Policies
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2019
Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859761
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Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2016
Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. We exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration enforcement between 2005 and 2011 to show how the average yearly increase in interior immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987209
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U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2021
Using the 2005-2014 waves of the American Community Survey –a period characterized by the rapid expansion of interior immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324297
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Assortative Mating and Divorce : Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2009
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155550
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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status : Evidence from North Indian Villages
Bhattacharya, Manasi - 2009
Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157025
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Immigrant Self-Employment : Does Intermarriage Matter?
Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009
hand, intermarriage reduces the chance of starting up a business possibly because better access to local networks can help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157036
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Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2006
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 … human capital affects the probability of intermarriage. Further support for the model is provided by deriving and testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780621
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Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage
Gevrek, Deniz - 2020
the low black-white intermarriage rate puzzle by suggesting that as black and white educational differences in general …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … than the racial adaptability effect in explaining intermarriage probability of black males. Our results suggest that rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825596
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Symbolism Matters : The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability
Chen, Shuai - 2019
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed into marriage. Since registered partnerships and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864859