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The Role of Own-Group Density and Local Social Norms for Ethnic Marital Sorting : Evidence from the UK
Vickery, Alexander - 2019
We present a structural marriage market model where individuals differ in ethnicity and qualifications, and where marital choices are affected by social conformity preferences. The model is estimated using White, Black and Asian individuals born in the UK between 1965 and 1989, and is identified...
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
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Women's age at first marriage and marital instability in the United States : differences by race and ethnicity
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon-jeong - 2017
The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631472
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Integration of ethnic minorities : do they divorce as natives do?
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Bonke, Jens - 2016
We investigate the divorce patterns among non‐Western immigrants and natives in Denmark. We focus on marriages entered … on or after arrival to Denmark and analyze whether inter‐ethnic marriages result in higher divorce rates and whether … divorce behavior differs between first- and second‐generation immigrants and native couples. We show that inter‐ethnic couples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452238
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Integration of Ethnic Minorities : Do They Divorce as Natives Do?
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2016
We investigate the divorce patterns among non‐Western immigrants and natives in Denmark. We focus on marriages entered … on or after arrival to Denmark and analyze whether inter‐ethnic marriages result in higher divorce rates and whether … divorce behavior differs between first- and second‐generation immigrants and native couples. We show that inter‐ethnic couples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999011
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Changing ingroup boundaries: the effect of immigration on race relations in the US
Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
studying how Mexican immigration to the US affected White Americans' attitudes and behaviors towards Black Americans. We … the theory, Mexican immigration improves Whites' racial attitudes, increases support for pro-Black government policies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517506
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From immigrants to Americans: race and assimilation during the Great Migration
Fouka, Vasiliki; Mazumder, Shom; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the US South to Northern urban centers, which were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518129
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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions
Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2006
Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two processes. This paper explores this issue through an examination of the effects of human capital on one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283435
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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 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/10003898821