Assimilation and ethnic marriage-squeeze in early 20th century America: A gender perspective

Weiss, Inbar; Stecklov, Guy

doi:10.4054/demres.2020.42.4

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“…Their econometric results show that ethnic group size generally has a negative and statistically significant association with male and female intermarriage rates while the within-group sex ratio has a positive but statistically insignificant association on intermarriage rates. Weiss and Stecklov (2020) use data from the 1930 US Census of Population on the six largest emigration countries (England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Russia) to examine the influence of ethnic sex ratios on intermarriage. They specify two distinctly different sex ratio variables: One is the traditional within-group sex ratio for an ethnic group, while the second is an extra-group sex ratio measuring female scarcity in all other ethnic groups (p. 7).…”

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“…We compute these both within and outside of the individual's ethnic group. 21 This specification builds on Weiss and Stecklov (2020) who pioneered the use of both measures. The variable, ForeignBorn jt , is the first-generation population of marriageable age of ethnic group j in census year t. The variables M i and F i , are binary variables showing type of mixed parentage (foreign-born mother-only [M i ] or foreign-born father-only [F i ]).…”

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“…And, most importantly, the marriage market in Hawai'i was isolated from the continental US market by internal migration restrictions applicable to virtually all first-generation Asian migrants in Hawai'i. 1 Our paper builds on recent work by Weiss and Stecklov (2020) to estimate how two independent measures of female scarcity impacted decisions about both marriage and household composition. We follow Fenske and Gupta (2022) by using the male share of the population of marriageable age as the measure of female scarcity rather than the ratio of males to females in the population of marriageable age.…”

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Male‐biased sex ratios, marriage, and household composition in early twentieth‐century Hawai‘i

Halliday,

La Croix,

Price

et al. 2024

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review

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Immigration to Hawai‘i between 1870 and 1930 led to a more than six‐fold increase in population and high and rapidly varying sex ratios in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Caucasian populations of marriageable age. Using complete populations of the 1910, 1920, and 1930 Territorial Censuses of Hawai‘i, we estimate how male‐biased ethnic sex ratios affected choices of second‐generation men and women of marriageable age. Econometric results indicate that within‐group and extra‐group sex ratios impact the likelihood of males and females to marry, to marry a spouse from another ethnic group, to have children, and to live in larger households.

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Male‐biased sex ratios, marriage, and household composition in early twentieth‐century Hawai‘i

Halliday,

La Croix,

Price

et al. 2024

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review

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“…The demographic literature on the marriage squeeze has shown that societal sex imbalances can promote intermarriage with other groups [23][24][25][26][27]. First generation migrant communities historically present skewed sex distributions because of male-or femaledominated flows of migration.…”

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Modeling Local Variations in Intermarriage

2022

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We utilized all Spanish marriage records available at the municipality level from 2005–2007 to model spatial variations in intermarriage. We constructed a spatial regime zero-inflated Poisson model and grouped-data probit model, with spatially lagged regressors, to predict the absolute and relative presence of intermarriage between Spaniards and migrants based on structural characteristics of the local marriage markets and their neighboring areas (i.e., relative group size, homogeneity of national origins, and sex ratio indicators). Our models do not assume collapsibility of the marriage market. Instead, they incorporate the local dimension of the marriage market and examine the association between intermarriage and structural variables at the spatial local level. The model also investigates intermarriage variation by size of place. The local characteristics of the marriage markets are robust indicators of both the absolute and relative importance of intermarriage, but their impact varies by size of municipality. The relative size of the migrant community positively impacts intermarriage. The homogeneity of the origins of migrants is negatively related to it. The impact of sex ratios in the migrant and native communities on intermarriage is not uniform across all municipalities and is not always related to more intermarriage.

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“…In this paper, we study the differential infant and child mortality in Madrid between 1916 and 1926, according to the birthplace of the mothers. Historical demographers have studied the integration of newcomers into growing urban populations through the lenses of intermarriage (Dribe et al 2018; Weiss and Stecklov 2020; Pagnini and Morgan 1990) and fertility (Kulu et al 2019; Moreels and Vandezande 2012; Schumacher et al 2013). The immigrant mortality paradox is also well known, describing the undermortality of international immigrants but also of rural-urban migrants because of their selection among healthier people (Kesztenbaum and Rosental 2011; Oris and Alter 2001; Puschmann et al 2016).…”

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Immigration, Poverty, and Infant and Child Mortality in the City of Madrid, 1916–1926

Mazzoni

Fariñas²

2023

Soc. sci. hist.

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In this paper, we study differential infant and child mortality according to the origin of the mothers, natives of Madrid or immigrants, between 1916 and 1926. From 1880 to 1939, Madrid experienced spectacular demographic growth, with a massive influx of immigrants, mainly from the Castilian Plateau. Using the city’s records of births and deaths, which we linked for the study period, we demonstrate an important spatial heterogeneity in infant and child mortality across the city. Although the development of the town was planned in the 1860s, the infrastructure and the real estate market were overwhelmed by the continuous arrival of new inhabitants. Moreover, major investments in public health increased the gap between the wealthy districts and peripheral areas. These improvements deepened inequality. During years marked by the waves of the influenza pandemic, we isolate the impact of poverty, which threatened the survival of newborns through poor nutrition, deficient hygienic infrastructures and deplorable housing conditions. Such features explain the impressive association between summer and the risk of dying from enteritis, diarrhea and other diseases of the same type among weaned children. However, the mortality differentials between the offspring of native and migrant mothers were surprisingly small, which we explained in terms of behavioral adaptation to the large city and its mass society.

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Assimilation and ethnic marriage-squeeze in early 20th century America: A gender perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 64 publications

Male‐biased sex ratios, marriage, and household composition in early twentieth‐century Hawai‘i

Male‐biased sex ratios, marriage, and household composition in early twentieth‐century Hawai‘i

Modeling Local Variations in Intermarriage

Immigration, Poverty, and Infant and Child Mortality in the City of Madrid, 1916–1926

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