Migration and Loving

Deniz Gevrek ()

No 5061, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males' geographical distribution in the U.S. during and after the Great Migration. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia in 1967, which forced the last 16 Southern states to strike down their anti-miscegenation laws, creates a unique opportunity to explore the impact of an exogenous change in a state's laws regulating interracial marriages. Analyzing the U.S. Census data, I find that anti-miscegenation laws in an individual's state of birth affect the sorting of inter- and intraracially married black males into destination states differentially.

Keywords: anti-miscegenation laws; migration; interracial marriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2010-07
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Published - revised version published as 'Interracial Marriage, Migration and Loving' in: Review of Black Political Economy, 2014, 41 (1), 25-60

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