Cohabiting Couple, Filing Jointly? Resource Pooling and U.S. Poverty Policies

By Catherine T. Kenney. 2004

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Jing Jian Xiao

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1. A. Snyder
2. D. McLaughlin
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Citations in the corpus

• Serial Cohabitation and the Marital Life Course (2008, unknown): “In fact, previous studies show that cohabiting couples are less likely than married couples topool resources (e.g., havea joint bank account) or plan to have children together (DeLeire & Kalil, 2005; Kenney, 2004).”
• Handbook of Consumer Finance Research (2008, background): “…conferring a higher level of trust than cohabitation and then changing fi nancial behavior is the fact that married couples are more likely than cohabiting couples to fully pool their incomes and fi nancial assets (Fletschner & Klawitter, 2005 ; Heimdal & Houseknecht, 2003 , Kenney, 2004 ).”
• Household composition and poverty among female-headed households with children : Differences by race and residence (2006, background): “First, prior studies find that regardless of family type, households tend to pool their economic resources (Kenney 2004; Oropesa, Landale, and Kenkre 2003).”