taxation is estimated to be 29.6% of tax revenue raised. The effect of the new 10% deduction to ease the marriage tax for …

Currently U.S. Federal Income Tax schedules do not maintain marriage neutrality, that is, tax liabilities depend upon …

Marriage penalties are a controversial feature of many government policies. Empirical evidence of their behavioral … decision. We investigate the removal of marriage penalties from the surviving spouse pensions of the Canadian public pension … marriage penalties can have large and persistent effects on marriage decisions. We also present evidence suggesting that it is …

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document … expectations of future marriage. Rather, the direction of causation is just the reverse: Nonmarital childbearing tends to be an … first marriage. Further, the upward trend in the proportion of childbearing that occurs outside of marriage may account for …

What determines bargaining power in marriage? This paper argues that wage rates, not earnings, determine well-being at …

This paper investigates the application of the three-parameter, Coale-McNeil marriage model and some related hyper …-parameterized specifications to data on the first marriage patterns of American women. Because the model is parametric, it can be used to estimate … the parameters of the marriage process, free of censoring bias, for cohorts that have yet to complete their first marriage …