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Title: Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with nativesnecessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives.Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effectof an immigrants marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates ofchildren from these marriages. Although second-generation immigrants with one nativeparent generally have lower dropout rates than those with two foreign-born parents, therelationship reverses when steps are taken to control for observable and unobservablebackground characteristics. That is, immigrants that marry natives have children that aremore likely to dropout of high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover,gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native disappear in specifications whichcontrol for the endogeneity of the marriage decision.

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Authors: Furtado, Delia

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Publication Number: 3931

Institution: Institute for the Study of Labor

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Publisher Location: Bonn, Germany

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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