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Can't Buy Me Love : A Field Experiment Exploring the Trade-off Between Income and Caste-Status in an Indian Matrimonial Market

Dugar, Subhasish - 2010

A large body of literature depicts that status/identity-based discrimination is pervasive, but is silent on how economic incentive interacts with such discriminatory behavior. Our study addresses this by designing a field experiment in a reputable arranged-marriage market that is prone to strong...

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Anthropometry of Love : Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages

Belot, Michèle - 2009

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are substantially 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...

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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

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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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2021

capital selectivity of Mexican intermarriage generates corresponding differences in the employment and earnings of Mexican …

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Marriage and divorce : the role of labor market institutions

Schulz, Bastian; Siuda, Fabian - 2020

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...

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Education, spatial disparities in schooling and black-white interracial marriage

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020

the low black-white intermarriage rate puzzle by suggesting that as black and white educational differences in general …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … than the racial adaptability effect in explaining intermarriage probability of black males. Our results suggest that rising …

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More than just friends? : school peers and adult interracial relationships

Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual's cohort on the percentage of adults' cohabiting partners that are black. We...

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Symbolism matters : the effect of same-sex marriage legalization on partnership stability

Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Samesex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages...

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Symbolism matters : the effect of same-sex marriage legalization on partnership stability

Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed into marriage. Since registered partnerships and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058498

First union formation among the children of immigrants in Norway : timing and choice of union type

Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug - 2019

Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1985 to 2000 who were either native-born or who immigrated as children or teens (N=1,013,734), the current study investigated timing of first co-residential union and choice of union type in the period 2005 through 2018. Descriptive results...

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