We exploit the post-war immigration-induced regional variation in ethnic composition among British-born individuals to study inter-ethnic marriages in the UK. Black and Asian individuals are more likely to marry intra-ethnically in regions where the own ethnicity share is relatively large. In order to disentangle the relative roles played by supply effects, preferences and local social norms we estimate a structural marriage market model that allows for conformity behaviour. Using the estimated model, we make predictions for a set of more recent cohorts whose marital choices are still to be completed.

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自己群体密度和当地社会规范对民族婚姻分类的作用：来自英国的证据。

我们利用战后移民引起的英国出生个人种族构成的区域差异来研究英国的种族间婚姻。在自己种族比例相对较大的地区，黑人和亚洲人更有可能在种族内通婚。为了理清供给效应、偏好和当地社会规范所起的相对作用，我们估计了一个允许从众行为的结构性婚姻市场模型。使用估计模型，我们对一组较新的队列进行预测，这些队列的婚姻选择仍有待完成。