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SUMMARY:History and economics seminar - Melinda C. Miller
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DESCRIPTION:As part of growing anti-immigrant sentiment during the early tw
 entieth century\, the United States enacted a series of laws designed to re
 strict immigration. Under the Expatriation Act of 1907\, U.S.-born women wh
 o married non-citizen men automatically lost their American citizenship\, w
 hile U.S.-born men faced no such penalty and could confer citizenship upon 
 their foreign-born wives. This paper considers how gender-specific citizens
 hip penalties affected marriage choices. I first document that U.S.-born wo
 men became less likely to marry non-citizen men following the Act’s imple
 mentation using the 1910 and 1920 U.S. Censuses.  To identify the role of 
 citizenship more precisely\, I exploit plausibly exogenous variation genera
 ted by World War I–era enemy alien registration laws. Beginning in Novemb
 er 1917\, German men were required to register as enemy aliens\, and\, in A
 pril 1918\, registration was extended to German women. Because of the Expat
 riation Act\, U.S.-born women who married German men were also subject to e
 nemy alien registration. Using the exact marriage dates available in a newl
 y digitized dataset of marriage records from Cuyahoga County\, Ohio\, I sho
 w that marriages between U.S.-born women and German men declined when regis
 tration requirements were extended to women\, but not when they applied onl
 y to men. These findings demonstrate that marriage decisions were responsiv
 e to gendered citizenship penalties and highlight how immigration policy ca
 n shape family formation.\\n\\nContact: Jean Boutier : jean.boutier[at]univ
 -amu.frAlice Fabre : alice.fabre[at]univ-amu.frCecilia Garcia Peñalosa : c
 ecilia.garcia-penalosa[at]univ-amu.frAlain Trannoy : alain.trannoy[at]univ-
 amu.frArundhati Virmani : arundhati.virmani[at]ehess.fr\n\nPlus d'informati
 ons: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/melinda-c-miller
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevar
 d Maurice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/melinda-c-miller
CONTACT:Jean Boutier : jean.boutier[at]univ-amu.frAlice Fabre : alice.fabre
 [at]univ-amu.frCecilia Garcia Peñalosa : cecilia.garcia-penalosa[at]univ-a
 mu.frAlain Trannoy : alain.trannoy[at]univ-amu.frArundhati Virmani : arundh
 ati.virmani[at]ehess.fr
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