caa a22 4500 445864206 CHVBK 20180317145452.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11150-010-9099-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11150-010-9099-9 Ethnic intermarriage among immigrants: human capital and assortative mating [Elektronische Daten] [Barry Chiswick, Christina Houseworth] This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages by immigrants in the United States. The dependent variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups (on the basis of ancestry and country of birth) and the inclusion of the explanatory variables is justified by a simple rational choice economic model. A binomial logistic regression is estimated using data from the 1980 US Census, the last Census where post-migration marriages can be identified. Results show that the probability of intermarriage increases the longer a migrant resides in the U.S. and the younger the age at arrival. Both relationships can be attributable to the accumulation of US-specific human capital and an erosion of ethnic-specific human capital. Inter-ethnic marriages are more likely between individuals with similar education levels, providing evidence of positive assortative mating by education for immigrants. The construction of the "availability ratio” for potential spouses from one's own group and group size where one lives using data from several Censuses provides a the measure of the marriage market. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio and the larger the size of one's own group. Linguistic distance of the immigrant's mother tongue from English indirectly measures the effect of English language proficiency at arrival and is found to be a significant negative predictor of intermarriage. Those who report multiple ancestries and who were previously married are more likely to intermarry. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Immigrants nationallicence Marriage nationallicence Ethnicity/Ancestry nationallicence Country of Birth nationallicence Chiswick Barry University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut Houseworth Christina University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/2(2011-06-01), 149-180 1569-5239 9:2<149 2011 9 11150 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-010-9099-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-010-9099-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chiswick Barry University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Houseworth Christina University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/2(2011-06-01), 149-180 1569-5239 9:2<149 2011 9 11150 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer