Researchers Benjamin Goldman, Jamie Gracie, and Sonya Porter found that residential segregation does not explain the low rate of white-Black marriage in the United States.
Sources
- Why are white-Black marriage rates so low? (news.harvard.edu)
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w35140 (nber.org)
- https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2024-05/Goldman-marriage_homophily.pdf (cowles.yale.edu)
- https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2024/CES-WP-24-30.pdf (www2.census.gov)
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