low income sample of parents, results suggest that the impact of cohabitation and marital dissolution on mental health are …

consequences of different stable unions (marriage and cohabitation) for child wellbeing. Results indicate that relationship quality … is the key determinant to both long-term cohabitation and marriage among unwed parents. Moreover, there are only slight … married parent families. It appears that long-term cohabitation presents a viable family structure for children. …

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 … cohabitation) following a non-marital birth is likely to increase fathers’ earnings and labor supply. The analyses are based on a …

low income sample of parents, results suggest that the impact of cohabitation and marital dissolution on mental health are …

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 … cohabitation) following a non-marital birth is likely to increase fathers’ earnings and labor supply. The analyses are based on a …

This study examined the cohabitation dissolution process in the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study (n = 1572 …). Seventy percent of low-income mother's cohabiting unions that did not end in marriage dissolved within 5 years. Of those, 75 … so. Results suggested that low-income mothers slid out of cohabitation, and sometimes back in. …

cohabiting-parent families and then single mothers. Among unstable families, exits from marriage and cohabitation are associated …Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study this paper examines associations between family …

cohabiting-parent families and then single mothers. Among unstable families, exits from marriage and cohabitation are associated …Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study this paper examines associations between family …

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 …