Common law marriage and couple formation

Table 3 Individual probability of being in couple as a function of CLM availability at different points in time

	State and time fixed effects		State-specific time trends		Only 3 transition states		Only 3 transition states, state-specific time trends
	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
CLM	-0.021	-0.051	-0.028	-0.059	-0.031	-0.033	-0.033	-0.069
	[0.010]**	[0.010]***	[0.020]	[0.021]***	[0.020]	[0.022]	[0.021]	[0.019]***
Year before repeal	0.028	0.035	0.028	0.032	0.004	0.037	0.027	0.033
	[0.011]**	[0.016]**	[0.016]*	[0.012]***	[0.017]	[0.019]*	[0.014]*	[0.009]***
Year of the repeal	0.015	-0.037	0.015	-0.04	-0.052	-0.019	0.011	-0.045
	[0.012]	[0.014]***	[0.017]	[0.018]**	[0.018]***	[0.028]	[0.016]	[0.017]***
One year after repeal	-0.031	-0.046	-0.032	-0.052	-0.096	-0.027	-0.033	-0.054
	[0.011]***	[0.018]**	[0.014]**	[0.023]**	[0.016]***	[0.023]	[0.014]**	[0.021]**
Two years after repeal	-0.046	-0.055	-0.039	-0.045	-0.095	-0.002	-0.037	-0.044
	[0.021]**	[0.011]***	[0.017]**	[0.015]***	[0.017]***	[0.027]	[0.015]**	[0.015]***
Three years after repeal	0.02	-0.005	0.028	0.003	-0.029	0.023	0.033	0.007
	[0.008]**	[0.027]	[0.010]***	[0.030]	[0.016]*	[0.034]	[0.010]***	[0.031]
Four years after repeal	0.022	0	0.023	0.001	-0.02	0.026	0.03	0.008
	[0.017]	[0.016]	[0.016]	[0.018]	[0.016]	[0.021]	[0.017]*	[0.020]
State characteristics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Year dummies	Yes	Yes			Yes	Yes
State dummies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
State-specific time trends			Yes	Yes			Yes	Yes
Observations	321917	292376	321917	292376	22175	19782	22175	19782

Notes: This table shows estimates of the probit marginal effects from equation (1) estimated at the mean. Each column comes from a separate regression. All regressions include individual demographic characteristics and state fixed effects. Models 1 and 3 include state fixed effects. Models 2 and 4 include state-specific time trends.
*significant at 10%; **significant at 5%; ***significant at 1%.