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 …
