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Title: Patterns of Panethnic Intermarriage in the United States, 1980-2018
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2022
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DOI: 10.31235/OSF.IO/DZ5PM
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Abstract: Intermarriage among ethnic groups belonging to the same panethnic category (e.g. Asian, Latino)is an important indicator of the strength of panethnicity. Yet, most of the work on panethnic inter-marriage uses older samples with significant data limitations. In this article, I use data on recentlymarried couples from the American Community Survey 2014-18 and Census 1980 to analyze thelikelihood of ethnic exogamy within the panethnic categories of Latino, East/Southeast Asian,and South Asian. I utilize a counterfactual marriage model that accounts for group size withinlocal marriage markets, eliminates immigrants married abroad from analysis, and controls forbirthplace and language endogamy. The results show that birthplace and language diversity aresignificant barriers to ethnic exogamy among Asians but not Latinos. Once birthplace and lan-guage endogamy are held constant, panethnic intermarriage is far more likely among Asians thanamong Latinos. East/Southeast Asian ethnic exogamy has increased over time, while Latino eth-nic exogamy has not. Furthermore, East/Southeast Asian and South Asian intermarriage remainsrare, suggesting that panethnic intermarriage among Asians occurs within two separate meltingpots.
Url: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/dz5pm/
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Authors: Gullickson, Aaron
Publisher: SocArXiv
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Reproductive and Sexual Health
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