Impact of Marriage Law Using Census Data
Difference-in-Difference Coefficient, Age in 1957 | Probability of Marriage: Women | ||||
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Mississippi 1 | Arizona and New Mexico 2 | Indiana 3 | South Carolina 4 | Iowa 5 | |
11–15 | −0.0362** (0.0179) | 0.00273 (0.0202) | −0.0106 (0.0118) | 0.00733 (0.0163) | −0.0249* (0.0136) |
16–20 | −0.0395 (0.0262) | −0.0274 (0.0274) | −0.0161 (0.0199) | −0.0269 (0.0267) | −0.0121 (0.0261) |
21–25 | −0.0189 (0.0184) | 0.0136 (0.0189) | 0.0330*** (0.0122) | 0.00647 (0.0184) | −0.0190 (0.0160) |
26–30 | −0.00322 (0.0141) | −0.0208 (0.0151) | −0.0260*** (0.00937) | 0.0131 (0.0164) | −0.0121 (0.0136) |
Mean of dependent variable | 0.604 | 0.649 | 0.611 | 0.591 | 0.600 |
Observations | 49,517 | 83,779 | 104,196 | 39,553 | 65,760 |
Notes: Data from IPUMS 1 percent sample from years 1950 and 1960. Regressions represent estimation of Equation 2 in the paper. For each state in the columns, the neighboring states are used as a control group. Please see appendix for list of control states used for each treated state. Controls included are all main effects of age groups and treatment group status.
* significant at 10 percent;
↵** significant at 5 percent;
↵*** significant at 1 percent, robust standard errors, clustered at the state-year level