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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017

In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...

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Children in Fragile Families

McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009

This paper uses data from the first four waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the following questions: (1) what are unmarried parents’ capabilities at the time of their child’s birth, and what is the nature of their relationship at birth and over time? (2) How...

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Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

Wildeman, Christopher - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009

Although the share of the homeless population composed of African Americans and children has grown since at least the early 1980s, the causes of these changes remain poorly understood. This article implicates mass imprisonment in at least the second of these shifts by considering the effects of...

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Children in Fragile Families

McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009

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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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Inter-ethnische Partnerschaften: was sie auszeichnet - und was sie über erfolgreiche Integration aussagen

Nottmeyer, Olga - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 11, pp. 12-20

Partnerschaften zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen gelten gemeinhin als Ergebnis erfolgreicher sozialer Integration und möglicherweise treibende Kraft hinter ökonomischem Erfolg. So verfügen inter-ethnisch lebende Migrantinnen und Migranten über eine höhere Schulbildung, einen besseren...

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Ethnic identification, intermarriage, and unmeasured progress by Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2005

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

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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages

Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 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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Immigrant peers in the class: Responses among natives and the effects on long-run revealed preferences

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Erica; Roman, Sara - 2021

We investigate whether exposure to immigrant peers at school affects natives' future interactions with ethnic minorities. Identification is based on variation in immigrant exposure across cohorts within school catchment areas in Sweden. We document that natives respond to immigrants by changing...

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Interethnic marriages and their economic effects

Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - 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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