Table 11

Impact of Marriage Law Using Census Data

Difference-in-Difference Coefficient, Age in 1957Probability of Marriage: Women
Mississippi 1Arizona and New Mexico 2Indiana 3South Carolina 4Iowa 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 variable0.6040.6490.6110.5910.600
Observations49,51783,779104,19639,55365,760
  • 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