. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market … marriage and later marriage in the 1890s and 1900s. As immigration declined, the long-run effect was for immigrants and their … immigration primarily affected the whites' marriage market which is why the changes in marital behavior are much more pronounced …

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … methods, using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 5, the Living Conditions Survey 2014/15, and the Quarterly …