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How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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van Ours, Jan C. () (Tilburg University)
Veenman, Justus () (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educational attainment of children from such marriages. We find that children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 3308.

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Keywords: interethnic marriages educational attainment

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I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination

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  1. Michael O. Emerson & Rachel Tolbert Kimbro & George Yancey, 2002. "Contact Theory Extended: The Effects of Prior Racial Contact on Current Social Ties," Social Science Quarterly, The Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 83(3), pages 745-761. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Kantarevic, Jasmin, 2004. "Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants," IZA Discussion Papers 1142, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  3. Ours, Jan C. van & Veenman, Justus, 2005. "Age at immigration and educational attainment of young immigrants," Discussion Paper 11, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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