This study relies way too much on statistical modeling!
Notice also the ideological usage of Black v. white! Very annoying and disturbing! How biased is this research?
Spatial exposure seems to be overemphasized and narrowly defined, i.e. childhood neighborhood, but what e.g. what about military service?.
Some black folks may say white people can't dance and have no rhythm! 😊 Just kidding!
"Americans rarely marry outside of their race or class in a nation where residential segregation is relatively common. It is a dynamic widely viewed as a contributing factor to income inequality and intergenerational social mobility.
A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper examines whether increased exposure to members of other race and class groups affects marriage rates between Black and white partners, based on an analysis of Census data and federal tax records. The overall rate has grown slowly over the years and currently stands at only 11 percent of intermarried couples. ..."
From the abstract:
"Americans rarely marry outside their race or class group, a pattern with well-documented implications for inequality and intergenerational mobility.
Limited exposure—or interactions with members of other groups—may partly explain these low intergroup marriage rates. We instrument for exposure using variation in childhood neighborhoods based on whether other race and class groups had more opposite-sex children of similar age.
Exposure increases interclass (high- and low-parent-income) marriage but has no detectable effect on interracial (White and Black) marriage.
A spatial marriage market model predicts that residential segregation—one of many forms of exposure—accounts for more than one third of marital sorting by class but less than 5% by race."
