Common law marriage and couple formation

Table 6 Robustness check: multinomial logit log odds of cohabiting or being married relative to being single

	Women		Men
	Married	Cohabiting	Married	Cohabiting
CLM	-0.084	-0.188	-0.214	-0.33
	[0.043]*	[0.081]**	[0.056]***	[0.085]***
Year before repeal	0.062	0.32	0.056	0.469
	[0.053]	[0.065]***	[0.077]	[0.070]***
Year of the repeal	0.012	0.193	-0.25	0.063
	[0.052]	[0.076]**	[0.072]***	[0.067]
One year after repeal	-0.14	-0.158	-0.209	-0.231
	[0.035]***	[0.147]	[0.056]***	[0.189]
Two years after repeal	-0.227	-0.103	-0.262	-0.207
	[0.093]**	[0.081]	[0.060]***	[0.079]***
Three years after repeal	0.055	0.127	-0.044	0.065
	[0.054]	[0.098]	[0.108]	[0.144]
Four years after repeal	0.099	0.032	0.014	-0.027
	[0.068]	[0.098]	[0.085]	[0.056]
Demographics, state characteristics, year & state fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	321917	321917	292376	292376

Notes: Multinomial logit model shows log odds of being married or cohabiting relative to being single; estimated separately for men and women. Full set of controls included into the regressions.
*significant at 10%; **significant at 5%; ***significant at 1%.