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.
Notes on verification
Confirmed via the original NBER working paper, Census Bureau and Cowles Foundation hosted versions, and Harvard GSAS coverage, all consistent in finding that residential segregation explains less than 5% of racial marital sorting. [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)