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 …

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 …

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

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 …

individuals. We use a sample of actual tax returns to compute estimates of the 'marriage tax' - the change in couples joint tax … upon marriage - under this new law. We predict that in 1994 52 percent of American couples will pay a marriage tax, with an … amount of dispersion in the population. Under the new law, the marriage tax for certain low-income families can exceed $3 …