Legally ever after: How did 1986 immigration reform affect marriage?

IF 1.3 4区经济学 Q3 DEMOGRAPHY

Journal of Demographic Economics Pub Date : 2022-06-16 DOI:10.1017/dem.2022.14

Aaron M. Gamino

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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.

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从法律上讲：1986年移民改革如何影响婚姻？

本文首次研究了1986年《移民改革与控制法》对外国出生个人与本土出生公民之间结婚率的影响。使用结婚证数据，我发现本地新娘和外国新郎的婚姻收益减少了0.2个对数点。这一数字的下降是由于与墨西哥新郎或非加拿大、非墨西哥新郎结婚的收益减少所致。我没有发现证据表明，在受教育程度较低或非法移民比例较高的州，这种影响有所不同。

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Journal of Demographic Economics Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Demographic variables such as fertility, mortality, migration and family structures notably respond to economic incentives and in turn affect the economic development of societies. Journal of Demographic Economics welcomes both empirical and theoretical papers on issues relevant to Demographic Economics with a preference for combining abstract economic or demographic models together with data to highlight major mechanisms. The journal was first published in 1929 as Bulletin de l’Institut des Sciences Economiques. It later became known as Louvain Economic Review, and continued till 2014 to publish under this title. In 2015, it moved to Cambridge University Press, increased its international character and changed its focus exclusively to demographic economics.