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The status-caste change thesis has been a workhorse that is theoretical the research of racial intermarriage in america since its introduction within the 1940s, and contains enjoyed a revival in current years. Some current studies, however, challenge this view. We test the thesis with multinomial logit regression data that are using black-white marriages in the usa and Canada. We find modest help for the theory in america although not in Canada. In the usa, white females hitched to African American men are notably prone to marry up on training than white feamales in same-race marriages, nevertheless the same pattern is maybe perhaps not seen if the intermarriage involves Caribbean blacks and whites. These statistically significant tendencies, nevertheless, mirror instead modest variations in the percentage of couples in interracial marriages with various academic amounts in comparison to those discovered among same-race partners.

Acknowledgements

The writers' names are detailed alphabetically. We have been indebted to Bob Anderson, Frank Bean, Eric Fong, Andrew Penner, Deanna Pikkov, and Jeff Reitz for crucial commentary on a youthful form of this short article. The commentary and recommendations through the log editor and reviewers had been exceedingly beneficial in helping us better organize our analyses.

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1. Observe that regardless of we are estimating the same model whether we use white intramarriage or black intramarriage as the reference group for the dependent variable. We switch the guide team only for the capability of producing importance tests appropriate for the required evaluations.

2. In an early on draft, we included earnings being a extra indicator of socioeconomic status to judge the presence of status change.