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Children in Fragile Families
McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
This paper uses data from the first four waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the following questions: (1) what are unmarried parents’ capabilities at the time of their child’s birth, and what is the nature of their relationship at birth and over time? (2) How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472048
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Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Wildeman, Christopher - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
Although the share of the homeless population composed of African Americans and children has grown since at least the early 1980s, the causes of these changes remain poorly understood. This article implicates mass imprisonment in at least the second of these shifts by considering the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472052
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Children in Fragile Families
McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
This paper uses data from the first four waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the following questions: (1) what are unmarried parents’ capabilities at the time of their child’s birth, and what is the nature of their relationship at birth and over time? (2) How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720708
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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects
Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds … with an examination of the economic consequences of intermarriage, and ends with a discussion of the links between … intermarriage, ethnic identification, and measurement of long-term socioeconomic integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653987
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Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Key Characteristics, and What They Reveal about Successful Integration
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 15, pp. 112-120
Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595849
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Anthropometry of Love - Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - CESifo - 2009
Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596585
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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
capital selectivity of Mexican intermarriage generates corresponding differences in the employment and earnings of Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761920
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Ancestry versus Ethnicity: The Complexity and Selectivity of Mexican Identification in the United States
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, intermarriage and the Mexican identification of children are also strongly related to how U.S.-born Mexican adults report their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762440
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Inter-ethnische Partnerschaften: was sie auszeichnet - und was sie über erfolgreiche Integration aussagen
Nottmeyer, Olga - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 11, pp. 12-20
Partnerschaften zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen gelten gemeinhin als Ergebnis erfolgreicher sozialer Integration und möglicherweise treibende Kraft hinter ökonomischem Erfolg. So verfügen inter-ethnisch lebende Migrantinnen und Migranten über eine höhere Schulbildung, einen besseren...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512976
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Anthropometry of Love Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2009
Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are substantially more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529008