Cahier de Recherche / Working Paper 09-23 The effect of same-sex marriage laws on different-sex marriage: Evidence from the Netherlands
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In this paper, I examine what happened to different-sex marriage in the Netherlands after two laws that introduced registered partnership (an institution almost identical to marriage) in 1998 and same-sex marriage in 2001. I first construct a synthetic control for the Netherlands using OECD data for 1988–2005 and find that neither law had significant effects on either the overall or different-sex marriage rate. Next, I confirm these results using a unique individual-level dataset for 1995–2005 and a discretetime hazard model with unobserved heterogeneity. Finally, I find that potentially conservative individuals married more while liberal individuals married less after each law.
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The Effect of Same-sex Marriage Laws on Different-sex Marriage: Evidence from the Netherlands
Title of dissertation: THE EFFECT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS ON DIFFERENT-SEX MARRIAGE: EVIDENCE FROM THE NETHERLANDS Mircea Ştefan Trandafir, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Judith K. Hellerstein Department of Economics It has long been argued that the legalization of same-sex marriage would have a negative impact on marriage. My dissertation examines what happene...
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