marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …

beliefs and outcomes for females but not for males. Marriage is a mechanism that is relevant for understanding differences in …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married … clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the living-standard loss from marrying is unaffected by spousal choice. Our … calculated high and highly variable marriage taxes materially reduce the probability of marriage particularly for low …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … marriage by socioeconomic status and inform theories of household formation and the family …

deadweight loss as well as reapportioning surplus. Kearney (2023) argues that declining marriage means American children grow up … in less-resourced families. I suggest this decline may reflect shortfalls in "soft" skills needed to make marriage …

when factors that affect tax liability are associated with race. We provide new evidence on racial differences in marriage … of income. We show that marriage rates are much higher among white adults than Black adults, which implies that two …