Globalization of Marriage and Trade
Eva Dziadula
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow
Teaching Professor of Economics
Jordi Paniagua
Kellogg Distinguished Research Affiliate
Associate Professor of Applied Economics, University of Valencia (Spain)
We study the role of cross-border marriages in bilateral international trade. We develop a structural model of trade that incorporates cross-border marriages. We then evaluate empirically the effect of marriage on trade flows. Using IPUMS International census surveys for available countries between 1994-2019 merged with the International Trade and Production Database, we find that countries with higher marriage rates in their population trade more. Moreover, trade flows are further increased by a higher share of cross-border marriages between trading partners. We explore heterogeneity by gender of spouses and employ an IV approach to validate our findings. We perform several counterfactuals to evaluate the contribution of marriage to welfare in general equilibrium.
Eva Dziadula
Eva Dziadula is a teaching professor in economics who studies migration choices and immigrant assimilation. Her work focuses on how people acquire citizenship, and her research encompasses labor economics, health economics, and development economics, as well as economic demography. Dziadula has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2019...