than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage …

, 45 percent of British children were born outside of marriage, up from 8 percent in 1971. A similar trend appears in the …

Married men earn more than unmarried men. Previous research suggests that marriage itself causes some of the difference …, but includes few men who fathered children out of wedlock. This paper asks whether increasing marriage (and possibly … years after their child’s birth. Results provide some support for the idea that increasing marriage will lead to increased …

, paternal substance abuse, prior marriage, and having children from prior unions account for the higher instability faced by …

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the marriage ideal is determined by the median income in an individual’s local reference group. After controlling …

, paternal substance abuse, prior marriage, and having children from prior unions account for the higher instability faced by …

Existing research shows that marriage and marital stability are positively associated with health and well-being. Thus …

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the marriage ideal is determined by the median income in an individual’s local reference group. After controlling …