The Married Widow: Marriage Penalties Matter!
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Marriage penalties , marriage , and cohabitation
I examine the effect of marriage penalties in the US income tax system on marital status. I construct a simulated instrument that exploits variation in the tax code over time and between US states to deal with potential endogeneity between the 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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the European Economic Association
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1542-4766,1542-4774
DOI: 10.1162/1542476041423377