-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to … marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …

using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of …

using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating … grooms. Guided by a model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and … marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women coming from families above a …

aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US …

. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects …, marriage to a native increases the probability that an immigrant is employed. An instrumental variables approach which exploits … variation in marriage market conditions suggests that the relationship between marriage decisions and employment rates is not …

by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …

Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the probability that an immigrant is employed … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The …

marriage to a native spouse facilitates business survival. -- Business ownership ; migration ; native spouse ; social networks …

.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … likely to arise solely from legal status acquired through marriage or characteristics of native spouses. We then present …