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The integration penalty: impact of 9/11 on the Muslim marriage market

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Major sociopolitical events can have lasting impacts on integration through changing marriage preferences. Marriage markets, due to their unregulated nature, both reflect and affect integration in society. I use 9/11 as a natural experiment that altered preferences for interethnic marriage without changing the demographic compositions. Using a difference-in-differences framework com-paring American Muslims to other ethnic minorities, I find that 9/11 reduced Muslim intermarriage rates by 8 percentage points, primarily through decreased marriages with White Americans. I develop a novel model that analyses how individuals trade-off between group identity and other partner characteristics in marriage decisions, providing a framework to compare intermarriage disutilities through compensating differentials in the marriage market. I find that barriers to intermarriage stem primarily from non-Muslim Americans rather than Muslims.

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  • Farahzadi, Shadi, 2024. "The integration penalty: impact of 9/11 on the Muslim marriage market," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 126780, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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