Common law marriage and couple formation

Table 7 Robustness check: OLS estimates of linear probability models with data aggregated by state/year

	In couple		Married		Cohabiting
	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
	1	2	3	4	5	6
CLM	-0.017	-0.046	-0.022	-0.04	-0.002	-0.019
	[0.016]	[0.016]***	[0.015]	[0.015]***	[0.016]	[0.014]
Year before repeal	0.009	0.016	-0.008	-0.01	0.021	0.03
	[0.022]	[0.022]	[0.020]	[0.020]	[0.022]	[0.019]
Year of the repeal	0	-0.072	-0.015	-0.081	0.009	-0.013
	[0.020]	[0.020]***	[0.018]	[0.018]***	[0.020]	[0.017]
One year after repeal	-0.03	-0.038	-0.036	-0.041	-0.005	-0.007
	[0.020]	[0.020]*	[0.018]**	[0.018]**	[0.020]	[0.017]
Two years after repeal	-0.02	-0.027	-0.03	-0.022	0.002	-0.02
	[0.020]	[0.020]	[0.018]	[0.018]	[0.020]	[0.017]
Three years after repeal	0.002	-0.024	-0.004	-0.02	-0.005	-0.021
	[0.020]	[0.020]	[0.018]	[0.018]	[0.020]	[0.017]
Four years after repeal	0.011	0.001	0.007	0.001	-0.003	-0.008
	[0.020]	[0.020]	[0.018]	[0.018]	[0.020]	[0.017]
Demographics included in the first stage, state characteristics, year & state fixed effects	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Observations	867	867	867	867	867	867

Notes: To obtain these estimates, we first regress data on individual-level controls and collect residuals. Then we compute average residuals by year and state, and regress them on year and state fixed effect.
*significant at 10%; **significant at 5%; ***significant at 1%.