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- Title
Legally ever after: How did 1986 immigration reform affect marriage?
- Authors
Gamino, Aaron M.
- Abstract
This paper is the first to study the effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 on marriage rates between foreign-born individuals and natural-born citizens. Using marriage license data, I find that gains to marriages involving a native bride and foreign groom decrease by 0.2 log points. The decrease in is driven by reductions in gains to marriages involving a Mexican groom or a non-Canadian, non-Mexican groom. I do not find evidence that the effects differed for states with lower educational attainment or higher shares of illegal immigrants.
- Subjects
IMMIGRATION reform; MARRIAGE licenses; EDUCATIONAL attainment
- Publication
Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, Vol 89, Issue 4, p569
- ISSN
2054-0892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/dem.2022.14