disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration … by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native …

treating everyone equally irrespective of sexual orientation. We find that legal recognition of partnership, marriage and …-sex marriage and similar reforms come at no "welfare" cost to society at large - if anything, the opposite appears to hold. We …