Alert reader (and UM economics Ph.D.) Jon passes along a pointer to a recent Pew study on intermarriage in the US in response to my earlier post on intermarriage in Canada.
The rates are much higher than I would have thought, particularly for blacks. The aysmmetry in intermarriage rates between black men and black women is large and has important implications for the "marriageable men" theory of William Julius Wilson. Indeed, I long intended to write a paper on just that point but never got around to it. That's another free paper idea ...
The geographic differences are interesting as well, though that one case where the multivariate analysis would be of interest, as Asians in the US are concentrated on the coasts and are generating a lot of the intermarriage. More broadly, there is a great "economics of intermarriage" paper waiting to be written as well, I suspect ...
Who was my favorite student this term?
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Speaking of marriageable men (or women), a colleague and I were discussing the effect on obesity. Of course there is the health cost, but the social stigma seems to have diminished as many of one's peers are themselves obese/overweight. This suggests a "Hot in Cleveland" effect in which newly single adults invest in attractiveness less if the live amongst less attractive people ... that is, Cleveland. This might be detectable in longitudinal data if they include divorce events and, say, BMI measures. Anyway, another free paper idea for some labor economics Ph.D.
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