Watson, Tara; McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on … hypothesize that the marriage ideal is determined by the median income in an individual’s local reference group. After controlling … flexibly for the absolute level of income and a number of other factors, the ratio between a man’s income and the marriage …