-sex marriage legalization had two different effects. First, it increased the separation rate of existing same-sex registered … partnerships. Second, partnerships that were transformed into marriage had a substantially lower separation rate. We take the …We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in …

-sex marriage legalization had two different effects. First, it increased the separation rate of existing same-sex registered … partnerships. Second, partnerships that were transformed into marriage had a substantially lower separation rate. We take the …We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in …

incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex couples, who only recently gained the right to … marry, now face the same marriage incentives that different-sex couples faced for decades. We highlight marriage incentives … affecting older couples, who have rarely been studied. Using the American Community Survey, we estimate decreases in marriage …

We examine whether voters rewarded conservative politicians who were voting in favor of same-sex marriage. Data is … September 2017. The results show that the vote share of conservative politicians who voted in favor of same-sex marriage was … share of conservative politicians who did not vote in favor of same-sex marriage. Voters were seeking for outcomes other …