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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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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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Bend it like Beckham : ethnic identity and integration
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 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/10009153057
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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/10013136952
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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Constant, Amelie F. - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097205
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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