Joseph Price, Angela Rachidi, and W. Bradford Wilcox | AEI and Institute for Family StudiesThe expanding reach of the welfare state means that a substantial share of lower-middle-class couples with children receive some kind of means-tested government assistance and many of these couples receive more generous support if they are unmarried. The authors find that these marriage penalties have a role in family formation in that they may discourage marriage among lower-middle-class families but not among the poorest families.
Marriage, penalized: Does social-welfare policy affect family formation?
Joseph Price, Angela Rachidi, and W. Bradford Wilcox | AEI and Institute for Family StudiesThe expanding reach of the welfare state means that a substantial share of lower-middle-class couples with children receive some kind of means-tested government assistance and many of these couples receive more generous support if they are unmarried. The authors find that these marriage penalties have a role in family formation in that they may discourage marriage among lower-middle-class families but not among the poorest families.
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