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Title: English Proficiency and Social Assimilation Among Immigrants: An Instrumental Variables Approach
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2007
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Abstract: Using 2000 Census microdata on childhood immigrants, we relate family-formation variables to their age at arrival in the United States, and in particular whether that age fell within the critical period of language acquisition. We interpret the observed differences as an effect of English-language skills and construct an instrumental variable for English-language proficiency. Two-stage-least-squares estimates suggest that English proficiency raises the probabilities of marrying a native, being divorced, or having a high-earning and/or more educated spouse, and reduces the number of children.
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Authors: Bleakley, Hoyt; Chin, Aimee
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Publication Number: 147
Institution: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Migration and Immigration
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