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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Daniele; Salisbury, Laura; … - 2022
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of...
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Upward Mobility and Discrimination : The Case of Asian Americans
Hilger, Nathaniel G. - 2016
subsequently exhibit high income. I re-examine this puzzle in California, where most Asians settled historically. Asians achieved … prejudice data suggest low initial earnings for Asians, unlike blacks, reflected prejudice rather than skills. Post-war declines … in discrimination interacting with previously uncompensated skills can account for Asians' extraordinary upward mobility …
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Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration
Ozek, Umut - 2016
We make use of a new data source – matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida – to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations : Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian - 2016
Because of data limitations, virtually all studies of the later-generation descendants of immigrants rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification rather than arguably more objective measures based on the countries of birth of the respondent and his ancestors. In this context, biases...
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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study
Chatterji, Pinka; Alegria, Margarita; Lu, Mingshan; … - 2021
of mostly white, American born populations. Among Asians, we find mixed evidence that psychiatric disorders and mental …
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Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages
Korenman, Sanders - 2010
We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and...
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Marriage, Children, and Labor Supply : Beliefs and Outcomes
Gong, Yifan - 2019
While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known about the expectations of these objects at earlier stages. We examine these expectations, taking advantage of unique data from the Berea Panel Study. In addition to characterizing...
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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy
Bisin, Alberto - 2019
We study the cultural integration of immigrants, estimating a structural model of marital matching along ethnic dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich administrative demographic data on the universe of marriages...
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How Much Consumption Insurance in Bewley Models with Endogenous Family Labor Supply?
Wu, Chunzan - 2018
We show that a calibrated life-cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and Saporta-Eksten (2016) in U.S. data. With additively...
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