which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be better able to adapt to different cultures making … matching effect). Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, we find that controlling for the enclave effect, there is empirical … evidence for both the cultural adaptability and assortative matching effects. Our estimates also suggest that assortative …

may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market … should affect marriage decisions, we use incarceration rates for men as an instrumental variable for family structure in …

measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio … were previously married are more likely to intermarry. -- Immigrants ; marriage ; ethnicity/ancestry …