Does intermarriage change migrants’ preferences for the home country?

Table 1: Country of citizenship for migrants

Does the Appendix Location Change During Pregnancy?

Background: Early diagnosis of appendicitis is important during pregnancy.  Unlike omentom, cecum and appendix are not likely to be displaced by the growing uterus, so the concept of position change of the appendix during pregnancy is questionable. Objective: To determine the anatomical location of appendix during pregnancy. Methods: In a prospective study from October 1995 to March 1999, 291 w...

Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks

Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of immigrant employment. We start by confirming in both least squares a...

Housing Preferences of Spanish-Speaking Migrants*

In this research I investigate the housing decisions of Spanish-speaking migrants. I use methods developed by Bajari and Kahn (2002) to obtain willingness to pay measurements for the migrant groups in samples drawn from three major California cities. I then apply these results to several hypotheses that attempt to describe current migration patterns of Hispanics into increasingly segregated com...

Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to ‡uctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German SocioEconomic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year variation for identi…cation of the e¤ect and panel data to control for migrants’observed and unobserve...