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Title: A Demographic Base for Ethnic Survival? Blending Across Four Generations of German-Americans
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Publication Year: 2010
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Abstract: New data from the IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) project permit anexploration of the demographic basis for ethnic survival across successive generations. Ifirst explore the degree of ethnic blending among the grandchildren of early- to mid-19thcenturyGerman immigrants; second, these descendants own marital choices; and third,the likely composition of the fourth generation to which they would give birth.Fundamental questions include: How high is the rate of single versus mixed origins afterso many generations in America? How large an absolute number of single-originindividuals remain (given the combined impact of out-marriage, on the one hand, andcumulative fertility, on the other)? How much less likely are single-origin individuals ofthe third generation to in-marry relative to those in the second generation? And how doall these patterns differ across 31,000 local geographic areas? I exploit the full-count1880 Census dataset and the Linked Representative Sample, which captures males in1880 as well as in one of the 190030 enumerations. Limiting attention to those whowere adolescents in 1880, we have three generations worth of ethnic information on eachsample member traced across time (birthplace as well as parents and grandparentsbirthplaces, from their parents responses) and ethnic information covering twogenerations for the women they eventually married.
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Authors: Perlmann, Joel
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Publication Number: 646
Institution: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Race and Ethnicity
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