Marriage and State-level Economic Outcomes

Robert Lerman, Joseph Price (), Adam Shumway () and W. Bradford Wilcox ()
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Joseph Price: Brigham Young University
Adam Shumway: Cornell University
W. Bradford Wilcox: University of Virginia

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2018, vol. 39, issue 1, No 6, 66-72

Abstract: Abstract Past research has examined various state-level measures that predict state economic growth and other economic and social indicators. This research has largely ignored the potential role of family structure in contributing to state-level outcomes, despite the extensive literature on links between family structure and economic outcomes at the individual level. We estimated a state-level panel model and found that both the proportion of adults and the proportion of parents who are married are strongly related to important state-level economic outcomes, including economic growth, median household income, median personal income, and poverty.

Keywords: Marriage; Economic growth; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s10834-017-9540-9

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