Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants This paper examines the relationship between interethnic marriages and economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States. Two competing hypotheses are evaluated: the productivity hypothesis, according to which immigrants married to native-born spouses assimilate faster than comparable immigrants married to foreign-born spou...

We provide the first analyses of infant mortality rates by indigenous ethnic group in Finland, a country that has one of the lowest relative numbers of infant deaths in the world. Using files from the Finnish population register, we identified both of the parents of children born in the period from 1975-2003 according to ethnic affiliation, socioeconomic profile, and demographic position. The i...

This paper addresses the capital mobility among regions within China. Using a range of panel estimators which deals with the non-stationarity of time series components, individual heterogeneity and common unobserved factors, we show that the savings and investment (both expressed as ratios to GDP) are positively correlated for a sample of 28 Chinese provinces over the period of 1978 to 2006. Ac...

What role do intermarriages (i.e., interethnic marriages) play in immigrants’ life satisfaction? Only a few studies have addressed this question. While are associated with upward mobility for immigrants, they more likely to get divorced than intramarriages marriages among co-ethnics), which suggests either positive or negative association between intermarriage and satisfaction. Drawing on data ...

Two puzzles stand out from the immigrant health literature. The assimilation puzzle asks why Hispanic natives often lag well behind non-Hispanic whites on measures of health. The puzzle of immigrant advantage, sometimes referred to as a version of the Hispanic Health Paradox, asks why Hispanic immigrants often have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...

In this paper, we consider Bayesian estimation and model determination for two-way contingency tables. The analysis is based on partitioning the parameter space of a saturated log-linear model into parameter subspaces identiied by considering the natural symmetries of the data. Prior distributions may then be chosen to respect invariance restrictions required by the available prior information....

Estimates of genetic susceptibility to leprosy were made in the past from observational reports in familial settings using descriptive epidemiologic data. Risk of conjugal transmission of leprosy (from one spouse to another) has been estimated between 1-10% and is thought to occur in 3-5% of spouses exposed to untreated lepromatous disease in the partner. Risk of secondary transmission is presu...

■ Abstract This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, and intermarriage. The existing literature shows that today’s immigrants are largely assimilating into American society along each of these dimensions. This review also considers direc...

In this paper, we describe genetic algorithms (GA’s) for forecasting long-term quarterly sales of products in the telecommunications technology sector using widely available economic indicators such as Disposable Personal Income and New Housing Starts as independent variables. Individual chromosomes indicated inclusion or disinclusion of specific economic variables, as well as operational rules...