Price, Joseph; Buckles, Kasey S.; Guldi, Melanie E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We use state repeals of blood test requirements for a marriage license that occurred between 1980 and 2005 to examine the impact of changes in the price of marriage on the marriage decision. Using a within-group estimator that holds constant state and year effects and exploits variation in the...