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Title: Incentives in Education and Marriage

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: Choices pertaining to education, marriage and migration generally have profound impacts on individuals’ lives. This dissertation focuses on the role of incentives in decisions involving education, interracial marriage and migration. To this end, Chapter 2 initiates a new line of research that investigates the role of self-employed parents on their children’s post-graduation plans and college success. Chapter 2 reveals that self-employed parents affect their offspring’s college success even after accounting for possible ability bias and controlling for various individual characteristics. While Chapter 2 focuses on the role of parental occupation on students’ incentives to succeed in college, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 investigate intricate relationships among education, interracial marriage, the anti-miscegenation laws, and migration in the U.S. Chapter 3 introduces a study that links previous literatures on the migration of blacks in the U.S. during the Great Migration with anti-miscegenation laws and interracial marriage. Chapter 3 concludes that anti-miscegenation laws in individuals’ states of birth affected the sorting of inter- and intraracially married . . .

Url: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/3848

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Authors: Gevrek, Deniz

Institution: The University of Texas at Austin

Department: Economics

Advisor: Daniel S. Hamermesh; Stephen J. Trejo

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Austin

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other

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