Does Marriage Increase the Odds of Affluence? Exploring the Life Course Probabilities

By T. Hirschl, Joyce Altobelli, M. Rank. 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Marriage and the Motherhood Wage Penalty among African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites. (2007, background): “Non-White marriages are more likely to end in divorce (Sweeney & Phillips, 2004), and they offer less protection against economic vulnerability (Hirschl et al., 2003; Smock et al., 1999; Wilson, 2003).”
• Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Differing Roles of Assets and Consumer Debt in Marriage (2007, background): “Third, married individuals generally accumulate more assets over their lives than nonmarried individuals (Hirschl et al., 2003).”
• Working Paper 180 - Marital Status, Household Size and Poverty in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2009-2010 Survey Data (2013, background): “…married-couple households have significantly higher wealth than other types of households (Waite, 1995; Wilmoth and Koso, 2002) while marriage is associated with a higher probability of attaining affluence over the life course when compared with nonmarriage (Hirschl, Altobelli, and Rank, 2003).”