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Mistresses and marriage: or, a short history of the Mrs

Erickson, Amy Louise - Department of Economic and Social History, University … - 2012

The ubiquitous forms of address for women, 'Mrs' and 'Miss' are both abbreviations of 'mistress'. Although mistress is a term with a multiplicity of meanings, in early modern England it most commonly designated the female equivalent of master - that is, a person with capital who directed...

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Marriage penalties, marriage, and cohabitation

Fisher, Hayley - School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - 2011

I examine the effect of marriage penalties in the US income tax system on marital status. I construct a simulated … marriage penalty a couple faces and their marital status. I find that a $1000 increase in the marriage penalty faced reduces … the probability of marriage by 1.7 percentage points, an effect four times larger than previously estimated. Those in the …

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