Migration to the US and Marital Mobility

Rebekka Christopoulou and Dean R. Lillard

No 19495, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: J1 J12 J15 Z1 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10
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Published as Rebekka Christopoulou & Dean R. Lillard, 2016. "Migration to the US and marital mobility," Review of Economics of the Household, vol 14(3), pages 669-694.

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