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Intermarriage and the intergenerational transmission of ethnic identity and human capital for Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian (contributor); Trejo, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2008
achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the United States. First, using Census data for U.S.-born youth ages 16-17 who … have at least one Mexican parent, we estimate how the Mexican identification, high school dropout rates, and English … extent and selectivity of ethnic attrition among second-generation Mexican-American adults and among U.S.-born Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724141
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Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2021
achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the United States. First, using Census data for U.S.-born youth ages 16-17 who … have at least one Mexican parent, we estimate how the Mexican identification, high school dropout rates, and English … extent and selectivity of ethnic attrition among second-generation Mexican-American adults and among U.S.-born Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325115
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Intermarriage and the intergenerational transmission of ethic identity and human capital for Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - In: Journal of labor economics 29 (2011) 2, pp. 195-227
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273281
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The Generation 2.5 Curse? Comparing Educational Outcomes for Children of Immigrant Intermarriages in the United States
Blackford, Cheyenne - 2019
Is having one native-born parent an advantage for the child of an immigrant? Much of the classical literature on immigrant assimilation would suggest that children with one native-born and one foreign-born parent (generation 2.5) should fare better than those whose parents are both foreign-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891889
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How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
van Ours, Jan C. - 2008
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725550
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How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2021
The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325370
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Migration and consumption
Misuraca, Roberta; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - Draft: April 2024
A scarce literature deals with the consumption implications of cultural assimilation and integration, ethnic clustering and diasporas, the marginal propensity to consume, home production and allocation of time, ethnic consumption, migration, and trade, as well as native consumption responses....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552525
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Ethnic Intermarriage Among Immigrants : Human Capital and Assortative Mating
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina - 2021
This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages among immigrants in the United States. The dependent variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational choice economic model. A binomial logistic regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324930
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More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships
Merlino, Luca - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual's cohort on the percentage of adults' cohabiting partners that are black. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979865
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More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships
Merlino, Luca - 2018
This paper investigates whether interracial contact in childhood impacts adult romantic relationships. We exploit quasi-random variation in the share of black students across cohorts within US schools. We find that more black peers of the same gender lead whites to have more relationships with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933547