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Publications
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Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century (with S. Levitt). Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2004.
In this paper, I focus on one aspect of social intimacy − marriages across black,
white and Asian racial lines. The paper begins with a brief history of the regulation of
race and romance in America. Then, using census data from 1880-2000, an analysis of
interracial marriage uncovers a rich set of cross-section and time-series patterns.
Marrying across racial lines is a rare event, even today. Interracial marriages account for
approximately 1 percent of white marriages, 5 percent of black marriages and 14 percent
of Asian marriages. Among married whites, 0.4 percent choose to marry blacks and 0.6
percent choose to marry Asians. Among married blacks, 4.6 percent intermarry with
whites and 0.5 percent with Asians. Asians intermarry almost exclusively with whites −
white spouses comprise 13.2 percent of all Asian marriages and blacks roughly 1
percent. Read the full paperAdditional figures and regressions.
Work in Progress
- The Plight of Mixed Race Kids (with L. Kahn and S. Levitt)
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