The children of intermarriage during the Age of Mass Migration
(2022) EKHS42 20221Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- This study performs a descriptive analysis of the potential effects of intermarriage on children of the immigrants arrived to the US in the Age of Mass Migration. To do this, we use a novel dataset, the Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel Project from IPUMS, that uses US full-count Census data to link people across censuses. This allows us to estimate the effect of intermarriage on children in a later Census year, 1940, while controlling for the socioeconomic status of parents of intermarried couples, so as to reduce concerns about self-selection. Besides, we also follow Tegunimataka (2021) and include cousin fixed effects to control for possible unobservables at the family level. We find that intermarriage results in significantly... (More)
- This study performs a descriptive analysis of the potential effects of intermarriage on children of the immigrants arrived to the US in the Age of Mass Migration. To do this, we use a novel dataset, the Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel Project from IPUMS, that uses US full-count Census data to link people across censuses. This allows us to estimate the effect of intermarriage on children in a later Census year, 1940, while controlling for the socioeconomic status of parents of intermarried couples, so as to reduce concerns about self-selection. Besides, we also follow Tegunimataka (2021) and include cousin fixed effects to control for possible unobservables at the family level. We find that intermarriage results in significantly positive outcomes when controlling from parental and contextual confounders. However, when including cousin fixed effects, all the coefficients lose their significance, suggesting that most of the estimated effect can be explained by unobserved heterogeneity at the family level, such as different values and upbringing practices, that cousins are more likely to share. (Less)
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- author
- Balladares Herbert, Sofia Camila LU
- supervisor
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- Martin Dribe LU
- organization
- course
- EKHS42 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Intermarriage, Immigration, Age of Mass Migration, US Census
- language
- English
- id
- 9100847
- date added to LUP
- 2022-11-09 08:55:26
- date last changed
- 2022-11-09 08:55:26
@misc{9100847, abstract = {{This study performs a descriptive analysis of the potential effects of intermarriage on children of the immigrants arrived to the US in the Age of Mass Migration. To do this, we use a novel dataset, the Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel Project from IPUMS, that uses US full-count Census data to link people across censuses. This allows us to estimate the effect of intermarriage on children in a later Census year, 1940, while controlling for the socioeconomic status of parents of intermarried couples, so as to reduce concerns about self-selection. Besides, we also follow Tegunimataka (2021) and include cousin fixed effects to control for possible unobservables at the family level. We find that intermarriage results in significantly positive outcomes when controlling from parental and contextual confounders. However, when including cousin fixed effects, all the coefficients lose their significance, suggesting that most of the estimated effect can be explained by unobserved heterogeneity at the family level, such as different values and upbringing practices, that cousins are more likely to share.}}, author = {{Balladares Herbert, Sofia Camila}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{The children of intermarriage during the Age of Mass Migration}}, year = {{2022}}, }