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Table 6 Two-limit Tobit estimates for the impact of intermarriage on household specialization: subsample of households with “traditional” gender roles

From: Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants: differences by gender

Variables

Male immigrant

Female immigrant

Male immigrant

Female immigrant

Intermarriage

−0.2772***

−0.1289***

−0.2268***

0.0961***

(0.0211)

(0.0215)

(0.0241)

(0.0058)

Own education

  

−0.1267**

−0.0304

  

(0.0514)

(0.0863)

Difference in education

  

0.0212***

0.0022

  

(0.0014)

(0.0014)

Experience

  

−0.4986**

−0.5759***

  

(0.2113)

(0.0003)

exp2

  

0.0003***

0.0004***

  

(0.0001)

(0.0000)

Difference in age

  

0.0160***

0.0037***

  

(0.0030)

(0.0009)

Years in USA

  

0.0013

−0.0076***

  

(0.0014)

(0.0003)

Good English

  

−0.0531**

−0.2234***

  

(0.0242)

(0.0067)

Family size

  

−0.0164*

−0.0404***

  

(0.0094)

(0.0017)

No. of children

  

0.1093***

0.1446***

  

(0.0141)

(0.0028)

Marriage duration

  

0.4699**

0.287

  

(0.2105)

(0.3374)

Age at marriage

  

0.4718**

0.282

  

(0.2105)

(0.333)

Lives in metro

  

−0.0034

−0.0555***

  

(0.0427)

(0.0079)

Regional own group

  

0.0006

−0.0026***

  

(0.0011)

(0.0003)

Sex ratio

  

0.0071

0.0025

  

(0.0066)

(0.0019)

State FE

No

No

Yes

Yes

Birthplace FE

No

No

Yes

Yes

Observations

33,875

26,913

33,875

26,913

Pseudo log likelihood

−4.138e+06

−3.231e+06

−4.012e+06

−3.103e+06

Pseudo R-squared

0.00281

0.000953

0.0324

0.0416

  1. Robust standard errors in parentheses. All data is from the 2010 ACS. A traditional household is one where the husband supplies at least as many market hours as the wife
  2. *p < 0.1; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01