A study found that when people from low- and high-income backgrounds live in the same neighborhood, more cross-class marriages form, but this pattern does not occur for interracial marriages.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the original NBER working paper and consistent across multiple independent versions (Census Bureau, Yale Cowles Foundation) plus a Harvard GSAS summary, all agreeing on the asymmetry between class and racial intermarriage effects. [tier=gold indep_score=0.95 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Why are white-Black marriage rates so low? (seed:relationships_and_lifestyle)
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w35140 (corroboration)
- https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2024-05/Goldman-marriage_homophily.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2024/CES-WP-24-30.pdf (corroboration)