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The Determinants and Consequences of Friendship Composition
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2013
This paper examines the demographic pattern of friendship links among youth and the impact of those patterns on own educational outcomes using the friendship network data in the Add Health. We develop and estimate a reduced form matching model to predict friendship link formation and identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459448
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Bend It Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462192
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Ethnic Complementarities after the Opening of China : How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors
Borjas, George J. - 2015
The largest and most important flow of scientific talent in the world is the migration of international students to the doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries. This paper uses the opening of China in 1978 to estimate the causal effect of this flow on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457570
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Marriage Meets the Joneses : Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status
Watson, Tara - 2009
Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the "marriage ideal" is determined by the median income in an individual's local reference group. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463874
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Sorting, Education and Inequality
Fernandez, Raquel - 2001
This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality. It discusses the implications of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470628
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'Acting Wife' : Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017
, that are undesirable in the marriage market? We answer this question through two field experiments in an elite U.S. MBA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455637
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Sorting and Long-Run Inequality
Fernandez, Raquel - 2000
Many social commentators have raised concerns over the possibility that increased sorting in a society can lead to greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility, and marital sorting and parameterize the steady state to...
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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy
Bisin, Alberto - 2019
future immigration inflows …
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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian - 2005
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467256
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America's settling down : How Better Jobs and Falling Immigration led to a Rise in Marriage, 1880 - 1930
Cvrcek, Tomas - 2010
. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their … immigration primarily affected the whites' marriage market which is why the changes in marital behavior are much more pronounced …
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