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Title: The Evolution of Intermarriage Among Hispanic Women
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Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: The number of Hispanic women in the United States more than doubled during the last thirty years. As economists and demographers study the assimilation patterns of these new immigrants and of the US born second-generation immigrants, it is worth asking in what ways changes during the last 30 years in the rates of intermarriage are similar or different to those of other groups in the population. Fryer (2007) explores intermarriage rates among White, Black and Asian women. His results show that these rates increased during the second half of the twentieth century for White and Black women, but not so for Asian women. Yet, whether this is true also for Hispanics remains until now unexplored. Understanding the dynamics of intermarriage of Hispanic women is important, as Furtado and Theodoropoulos (2010) view intermarriage as a useful metric of immigrant assimilation. Furthermore, researchers are increasingly interested in the dynamics behind the association of social integration with socioeconomic outcomes of immigrants (for example Furtado and Trejo, 2012) In this article we use the 1980, 1990, 2000 Census and the pooled 2008, 2009 and 2010 American Community Survey1 to document intermarriage trends among Hispanic women, paying attention to differences across different cohorts across these four decades. Within the sample, we are especially interested in the outcomes of Hispanic women. In their survey of Hispanic families, Landale and Oropesa (2007) emphasize the need to analyze change in family structure across time.
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Authors: Lozano, Fernando; Zhu, Maria
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Pages: 7-10
Volume Title: Hispanic Economic Outlook
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Race and Ethnicity
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