Research Immigration More Than “I Do”: Legal Status and Cultural Distance Shape Marriages and Separations
What happens when immigration policies change the rules of the game? And how do these changes affect the marriage choices and the stability of mixed couples? The paper “There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations” by Jérôme Adda and Paolo Pinotti of Bocconi University and Giulia Tura of LUISS University, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy, provides surprising answers to these questions, revealing how access to legal status and cultural distance influence marriages and separations between natives and migrants.