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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.

Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024

Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...

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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.

Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024

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English proficiency and test scores of immigrant children in the US

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2017

Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children. This paper explores how much of such differences in achievement can be accounted for by a lack of English proficiency. To identify the causal effect of English proficiency on...

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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2021

Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more … educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans … or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican spouses of intermarried Mexican Americans possess relatively high …

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

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Ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes....

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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants’ ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022260

The effect of 9/11 on immigrants' ethnic identity and employment : evidence from Germany

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

A growing concern in Western countries is the fact that immigrants might adopt oppositional identities. Although identity is expected to affect the economic outcomes of immigrants, little is known about the factors that influence the identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018759