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Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class / Benjamin Goldman, Jamie Gracie, Sonya Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldman, Benjamin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w35140.
- NBER working paper series no. w35140
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2026.
- Summary:
- Americans rarely marry outside their race or class group, a pattern with well-documented implications for inequality and intergenerational mobility. Limited exposure--or interactions with members of other groups--may partly explain these low intergroup marriage rates. We instrument for exposure using variation in childhood neighborhoods based on whether other race and class groups had more opposite-sex children of similar age. Exposure increases interclass (high- and low-parent-income) marriage but has no detectable effect on interracial (White and Black) marriage. A spatial marriage market model predicts that residential segregation--one of many forms of exposure--accounts for more than one third of marital sorting by class but less than 5% by race.
- Notes:
- April 2026.
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