Residential segregation and black-white intermarriage

Finn Christensen

Economics Bulletin, 2011, vol. 31, issue 1, 722-738

Abstract: I use 1980, 1990, and 2000 Census data to show that greater residential segregation is associated with a lower probability that black men, black women, white men, and white women are in black-white marriages. This negative relationship grows stronger among whites and remains constant among blacks when I control for local marriage market characteristics. Plausible explanations for the results are discussed and investigated.

Keywords: segregation; racial intermarriage; spatial mismatch (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 J4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-03-01
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