Good point, but doesn’t that also apply to unmarried cohabitation?
EDIT: BTW, the bottom of your post says “[...] marriage makes family income go up via the large male marriage premium minus the small female marriage penalty”, which answers my question upthread.
but doesn’t that also apply to unmarried cohabitation?
It also applies in interesting ways to communal living.
In fact, given the magnitude of the effect, the question becomes “Why would anyone ever live alone?”. And the fact that a lot of people do this, by choice, leads into interesting directions...
Good point, but doesn’t that also apply to unmarried cohabitation?
EDIT: BTW, the bottom of your post says “[...] marriage makes family income go up via the large male marriage premium minus the small female marriage penalty”, which answers my question upthread.
It also applies in interesting ways to communal living.
In fact, given the magnitude of the effect, the question becomes “Why would anyone ever live alone?”. And the fact that a lot of people do this, by choice, leads into interesting directions...
Yes it does, so it’s not really an argument for the act of marriage itself, but on marriage-like behaviors.