Gender differences in the marriage and cohabitation income premium.

Gender Differences in the Marriage and Cohabitation Income Premium

Racial-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Returns to Cohabitation and Marriage: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Using data on cohabitation from the 1995-1997 March Current Population Survey, the first three years in which the survey included "unmarried partner" as a relationship category, I measure the relationship between earnings and cohabitation as well as other marital statuses across racial-ethnic groups for men and women. Results show that among 25-54 year-old workers, black women have the largest ...

Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark

Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark The word for ‘married’ in Danish is the same as the word for ‘poison’. The word for ‘sweetheart’ in Danish is the same as the word for ‘tax’. In this paper we expand upon the literature documenting a significant marital wage premium for men in the United States to see if a similar diffe...

The Influence of Men’s Income and Employment on Marriage and Cohabitation: Testing Oppenheimer’s Theory in Europe

This article discusses Oppenheimer's theory on marriage timing, reviews the way this theory was received in European demography and family sociology, and develops a new test of the theory using annual panel data from 13 European countries for the period 1994-2001. Several indicators of men's economic status are used, including school enrollment, employment, type of labor contract, work experien...

Re-evaluating the Link between Marriage and Mental Well-being: How Do Early Life Conditions Attenuate Differences between Cohabitation and Marriage? Table of Contents

Improving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change Re-evaluating the link between marriage and mental well-being: How do early life conditions attenuate differences between cohabitation and marriage? i ABSTRACT The decline in marriage and increase in cohabitation raises questions about whether marriage still provides benefits to well-being. Here we use the Brit...