| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15161 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15161 |
| Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements | |
| Kasey S. Buckles; Melanie E. Guldi; Joseph Price | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-07-16 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use state repeals of blood test requirements for a marriage license that occurred between 1980 and 2005 to examine the impact of changes in the price of marriage on the marriage decision. Using a within-group estimator that holds constant state and year effects and exploits variation in the repeal dates of BTRs across states, we find that BTRs are associated with a 5.7% decrease in marriage licenses issued by a state. Using individual-level marriage license data from 1981-1995, we find that about half of this effect is due to couples seeking marriage licenses in other states, with the other half is due to deterred marriages. We also examine the marital status of mothers using birth certificate and Current Population Survey data, and find that blood test requirements reduce the fraction of first-time mothers who are married at the time of birth. The marriage-deterrent effects of BTRs are larger for lower socio-economic groups. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15161 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572837 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kasey S. Buckles,Melanie E. Guldi,Joseph Price. Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements. 2009. |
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