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Latent earning capacity and the race marriage gap

Nakosteen, Robert A.; Zimmer, Michael A. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20

One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative shortage of marriageable black men. Yet numerous studies...

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Mental health effects of same-sex marriage legalization

Chen, Shuai; Ours, Jan C. van - 2021

Sexual minorities have had worse than average mental health, which may have to do with actual or perceived discrimination. Same-sex marriage legalization (SSML) is a typical anti-discrimination policy removing marital restrictions for sexual minorities. We study how this legislation affected...

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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

surrounding interethnic marriage and assimilation, this chapter starts by considering the determinants of intermarriage, proceeds … with an examination of the economic consequences of intermarriage, and ends with a discussion of the links between … intermarriage, ethnic identification, and measurement of long-term socioeconomic integration. …

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Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Key Characteristics, and What They Reveal about Successful Integration

Nottmeyer, Olga - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 15, pp. 112-120

Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better...

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Anthropometry of Love - Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages

Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - CESifo - 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...

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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...

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Same-sex marriage laws and lending to same-sex couples

Hagendorff, Jens - 2020

We use the staggered adoption of same-sex marriage legalization across the U.S. to study its effects on access to credit for same-sex couples. Following the legalization of same-sex marriage, same-sex couples are more likely to be denied mortgage credit compared to opposite-sex couples. Our data...

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Anthropometry of Love : Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages

Fidrmuc, Jan; Belot, Michèle - 2011

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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Marital Violence and Women’s Employment and Property Status : Evidence from North Indian Villages

Bhattacharya, Manasi; Chhachhi, Amrita; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women’s employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women’s well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women’s employment status and their...

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Valuable Vows : An Examination of the Marriage Premium Using Same-Sex Marriage Legalization

Burn, Ian; Jackson, Osborne - 2014

We utilize U.S. same-sex marriage legalization to reexamine the unresolved question of why married men earn higher wages than comparable unmarried men. If this marriage premium operates similarly for homosexual men as it does for heterosexual men, the newfound availability of same-sex marriage...

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