Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …