Common law marriage and couple formation

Grossbard, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria

doi:10.1186/s40172-014-0016-y

Table 4 CLM and probability of being married, cohabiting and divorced; probit marginal effects

From: Common law marriage and couple formation

	Probability of being married among all respondents		Probability of cohabiting among unmarried		Probability of being divorced or separated among ever-married
	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
	1	2	3	4	5	6
A. Full sample
CLM	-0.016	-0.033	-0.016	-0.026	0.011	0.026
	[0.009]*	[0.010]***	[0.009]*	[0.007]***	[0.014]	[0.018]
Year before repeal	0.004	0.001	0.035	0.044	-0.002	0.018
	[0.011]	[0.015]	[0.009]***	[0.008]***	[0.016]	[0.034]
Year of the repeal	-0.004	-0.043	0.023	0.006	-0.012	0.045
	[0.008]	[0.011]***	[0.009]***	[0.006]	[0.009]	[0.019]**
One year after repeal	-0.028	-0.033	-0.013	-0.016	-0.006	0.035
	[0.008]***	[0.007]***	[0.014]	[0.013]	[0.010]	[0.015]**
Two years after repeal	-0.048	-0.042	-0.011	-0.02	0.018	0.044
	[0.017]***	[0.010]***	[0.009]	[0.007]***	[0.021]	[0.029]
Three years after repeal	0.005	-0.014	0.015	0.006	-0.031	0
	[0.014]	[0.015]	[0.014]	[0.014]	[0.017]*	[0.010]
Four years after repeal	0.018	0.002	0.003	-0.003	-0.052	-0.005
	[0.011]*	[0.015]	[0.010]	[0.005]	[0.012]***	[0.009]
Observations	321917	292376	190655	186020	161687	123368
B. Only three transition states
CLM	-0.046	-0.058	0.02	0.024	0.078	0.069
	[0.018]***	[0.015]***	[0.013]	[0.014]*	[0.020]***	[0.028]**
Year before repeal	0.011	0.025	-0.014	0.014	0.006	-0.012
	[0.017]	[0.016]	[0.008]*	[0.012]	[0.013]	[0.025]
Year of the repeal	-0.044	-0.035	-0.013	0.018	0.057	0.05
	[0.015]***	[0.019]*	[0.011]	[0.015]	[0.023]**	[0.029]*
One year after repeal	-0.085	-0.04	-0.017	0.016	0.099	0.044
	[0.015]***	[0.014]***	[0.009]*	[0.014]	[0.021]***	[0.029]
Two years after repeal	-0.095	-0.028	-0.01	0.024	0.126	0.025
	[0.017]***	[0.016]*	[0.009]	[0.019]	[0.024]***	[0.038]
Three years after repeal	-0.03	-0.001	-0.01	0.022	0.029	-0.011
	[0.016]*	[0.020]	[0.012]	[0.019]	[0.020]	[0.020]
Four years after repeal	-0.004	0.019	-0.017	0.009	-0.003	0.009
	[0.014]	[0.013]	[0.008]**	[0.010]	[0.016]	[0.017]
Observations	22176	19786	12662	12218	11465	8758
Other controls: demographics, state characteristics, year & state fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

*significant at 10%; **significant at 5%; ***significant at 1%.

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