Rebinding the ties that bind: Government efforts to preserve and promote marriage<sup>*</sup>

Brotherson, Sean; Duncan, William C.

doi:10.1111/j.0197-6664.2004.00054.x

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“…Policy ideally reflects the values of people they are created for (Brotherson & Duncan, 2004). Moreover, public opinion precedes policy change (Page & Shapiro, 1983).…”

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“…Examination of public attitudes is vital "to inform policy analysts of the social climate in which…legal initiatives are taking place" (Hawkins, Nock, Wilson, Sanchez, & Wright, 2002, p. 166). External systems, including government, have been found to influence competency and character of family members (Brotherson & Duncan, 2004). In the case of the FMPPA, policy translates into actions couples must do in order to receive a monetary and time incentive.…”

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Contributing Factors Leading to Couples’ Decisions to Participate in Premarital Preparation: Contextual and Individual Influences

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Mayberry²,

Smith³

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“…Policy ideally reflects the values of people they are created for (Brotherson & Duncan, 2004). Moreover, public opinion precedes policy change (Page & Shapiro, 1983).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contributing Factors Leading to Couples’ Decisions to Participate in Premarital Preparation: Contextual and Individual Influences

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Mayberry²,

Smith³

et al. 2010

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“…The increase in cohabitation, the baby boomers aging out of the typical age range of first marriages, a delay in timing of first marriages, and the increasing proportion of people who will never marry all are linked to the declining rates of marriage (Amato 2004;Brotherson and Duncan 2004;Lee and Payne 2010;McLanahan and Jacobsen 2015;Sassler and Miller 2017;Schoen and Cheng 2006). Although some scholars attributed marital decline to a rise in women's education and employment opportunities, since Oppenheimer (1997), this theory has receded.…”

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Unequal marriage markets: Sex ratios and first marriage among Black and White women

Cohen

Pepin²

2018

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Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Original ArticleDebates over the decline of marriage revolve around the poles of structure and culture. The structure side sees marriage decline as a function of a combination of increased opportunity for some women (making marriage less necessary) and a lack of "marriageable" men for others (making marriage less available). The culture side focuses on some combination of individualism, feminism, and welfare dependency, any of which may be seen as weakening the will to marry. As the decline in marriage has been much steeper for less advantaged women (Lundberg, Pollak, and Stearns 2016), the emphasis has turned to these women rather than those for whom marriage is less imperative. The related policy debate has revolved around poverty and welfare programs, and the marriage gap between Blacks and Whites-especially parents-has been especially salient, with conservative culture warriors advocating for marriage promotion programs and structure proponents targeting mass incarceration, job opportunities, racial segregation, and discrimination.In this paper, we assess the local marriage market characteristics that Black and White women encounter, specifically, the quantity and (economic) quality of potential male marriage partners, along with women's individual characteristics, and the extent to which these variables predict marriage. To do this, we offer a new analysis of data from the American Community Survey (ACS), which has several unique properties that contribute new information to this set of questions. We examine the local availability of single men and the characteristics of those men as potential determinants of marriage for Black and White women using marital events data from the ACS. We have two goals that are essentially descriptive. First, we develop a multilevel model of marriage market conditions and women's individual characteristics to help explain women's odds of marrying. This is relevant because to the extent that marriage market factors influence the odds of marriage so that there is a relative shortage of men-or men with greater resources-then welfare state policies intended to increase marriage among poor women will be swimming against the tide. The continued political salience of marriage-and its decline, especially among African Americans and people with low incomes-underscores the need for ongoing analysis of this question. Second, we assess the extent to which Black-White differences in marriage market conditions affect race difference in marriage rates. AbstractUsing the marital events data from the American Community Survey for the first time, we exam...

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“…5 For a comprehensive overview of U.S. policies to promote marriage, see Gardiner, Fishman, Nikolov, Glosser and Laud (2002); Brotherson and Duncan (2004). 6 TANF was created by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act instituted in 1996.…”

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Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

Frimmel

Halla²,

Winter‐Ebmer³

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractPolicies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper, we exploit the suspension of a cash-on-hand marriage subsidy in Austria to examine the dierential behavior of marginal and average marriages. The announcement of this suspension led to an enormous marriage boom (plus 350 percent) among eligible couples that allows us to identify marginal marriages. Applying a dierence-in-dierences approach, we show that marginal marriages are surprisingly as stable as average marriages, but have fewer children and have them later in marriage. Notably, the children born to marginal marriages are similar in terms of health at birth. JEL Classication: J12, H24, H53, I38.

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Rebinding the ties that bind: Government efforts to preserve and promote marriage^*

Cited by 64 publications

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Contributing Factors Leading to Couples’ Decisions to Participate in Premarital Preparation: Contextual and Individual Influences

Contributing Factors Leading to Couples’ Decisions to Participate in Premarital Preparation: Contextual and Individual Influences

Unequal marriage markets: Sex ratios and first marriage among Black and White women

Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

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Rebinding the ties that bind: Government efforts to preserve and promote marriage*

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Contributing Factors Leading to Couples’ Decisions to Participate in Premarital Preparation: Contextual and Individual Influences

Contributing Factors Leading to Couples’ Decisions to Participate in Premarital Preparation: Contextual and Individual Influences

Unequal marriage markets: Sex ratios and first marriage among Black and White women

Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages

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