... marriage rates in the United States. Using a difference-in-differences strategy that compares how marriage rates change after legal recognition in U.S. states that alter legal recognition versus states that do not, I find no evidence that allowing same-sex couples to marry reduces the opposite-sex marriage...

...Lynn K. White Abstract The previously observed aggregate relationship between marriage rates and female work opportunities is not found among black Americans. Alternative definitions of family formation which take illegitimacy into consideration are explored and also found to be unrelated to black...

... Marriage Rate Marital Fertility Work Opportunity Median Earning References Becker Gary S. ( 1974 ). A Theory of Marriage: Part II . Journal of Political Economy , 82 , 811 – 826 . 10.1086/260265 Bogue Donald J. ( 1969 ). Principles of Demography . New York : John Wiley...

...James M. Raymo; Hyunjoon Park Abstract Explanations for the substantial decline in rates of marriage in East Asian countries often emphasize the role of rapid educational expansion for women in reducing the desirability of marriages characterized by a strong gender-based division of labor. Focusing...

...Avery M. Guest Abstract Using well-known techniques of regression analysis, we decompose the crude birth rate into six analytical components, indicating illegitimacy, the marriage rate, legitimate fertility, and sex and age composition. All the components except sex structure are important in...

...Fig. 3 Comparison of actual-synthetic marriage rate differences ...

... Union makes it possible to explore this hypothesis by examining areal differentials in divorce rates. Crude divorce rates and crude marriage rates for 1960 have been published in Vestnik Statistiki for 109 political-administrative areas in the Soviet Union. Several indicators of modernization are...