. Spousal cohabiters begin marriage with more debt than the directly married. Conditional on education, income, and other key …Research has found that married individuals who cohabited only once before marriage with their future spouse (i … marriage is associated with gains for financial and nonfinancial wealth, increasing home equity, and decreasing debt over time …

There has been a large empirical literature on the effect of marriage on health, but scant empirical evidence on the … ways. First we explicitly modeled cohabitation distinct from marriage. Second, we included lagged health in our models to …,000 adults, we found that being in a relationship is good for health, but the benefits are not unique to marriage. Our finding …

In this article, we investigated the effects of marriage and spousal characteristics on the use of preventive care. We … accounted for the endogeneity of marriage by combining propensity score estimation techniques with marriage transitions observed … in longitudinal data. Results indicated that marriage increases the probability of dental check-ups and physical …

This research focuses on the relationship between marriage and women’s self-employment earnings in the US. The basic … proposition is that marriage poses an additional constraint on women entrepreneurs. By acknowledging the overlap of gender, family …, and business we are able to observe the relationship between the institution of marriage and women’s self …

-third of mothers moved toward economic self-sufficiency over three years. Maternal education, employment status, and weekly … unmarried, martial status was not significant in economic improvement. Findings suggest the role of marriage in welfare reform …