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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

independence and potential mismatch. Cohabitation became an acceptable living arrangement for all groups, but cohabitation serves …

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Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation

Grossbard, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the U.S. CLM effects are identified through cross-state and time variation, as some states abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary...

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Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes

Oreffice, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

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Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?

Ekert-Jaffe, Olivia; Grossbard, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper investigates the likelihood of an unpartnered birth as a function of laws regulating the division of joint property in case of divorce. Based on a rational choice model of marriage and assuming that on average women earn less than men, we predict that women are less likely to have an...

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Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis

Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. We explore the factors that explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to quantify the contribution of different factors through a...

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A Demographic Analysis of the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States

van der Klaauw, Wilbert H; Blau, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

"shotgun" unions for blacks compared to whites and Hispanics. Another notable finding is that cohabitation plays a negligible …

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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

a combination of increased longevity with a declining age gap between husbands and wives. Cohabitation has also become …

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Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina; Stratton, Leslie S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

relationship histories, consisting of about 35,000 young Danish men observed before and after their first marriage or cohabitation … during the years 1984-2001. Since the majority of young Danes cohabit before they marry, if they ever marry, cohabitation is … controlling for selectivity. The cohabitation premium is found to be of the same size as the marital wage premium. Our results …

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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

different years and requiring different cohabitation length. We find that obtaining the right to petition for alimony led women …

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