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Migration to the US and Marital Mobility / Rebekka Christopoulou, Dean R. Lillard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christopoulou, Rebekka.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19495.
- NBER working paper series no. w19495
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- We combine survey data on British and German immigrants in the US with data on natives in Britain and Germany to estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective mating, we instrument educational attainment using government spending on education in the years each person was of school-age. To control for selective migration, we instrument the migration decision using inflows of immigrants to the US during puberty and early adulthood. We find that migration causes men to marry up and women to marry down, but self-selection into migration and marriage dampens down these effects.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2013.
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