A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper found that greater exposure to people from other groups leads to more marriages across class lines but has no detectable effect on White–Black marriage rates.
Sources
- Why are white-Black marriage rates so low? (news.harvard.edu)
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w35140 (nber.org)
- https://www2.census.gov/library/working-papers/2024/adrm/ces/CES-WP-24-30.pdf (www2.census.gov)
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