Table A5

Quantifying the Magnitude of the Effects

	Predicted Marriage Rates Using Actual Reference Group Median			Predicted Marriage Rates Using 10 Percent Higher Median			Percent Change
Native non-Hispanic white men
	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000
Less than high school	0.64	0.49	0.42	0.63	0.48	0.41	−0.020	−0.024	−0.027
High school exactly	0.67	0.55	0.47	0.66	0.53	0.46	−0.020	−0.024	−0.028
Some college	0.64	0.57	0.51	0.63	0.55	0.50	−0.022	−0.024	−0.028
College grad+	0.62	0.55	0.51	0.60	0.54	0.50	−0.025	−0.027	−0.028
All	0.64	0.55	0.50	0.63	0.54	0.48	−0.022	−0.025	−0.028
Native non-Hispanic black men
	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000
Less than high school	0.39	0.22	0.18	0.39	0.22	0.17	−0.018	−0.023	−0.030
High school exactly	0.49	0.33	0.31	0.48	0.32	0.30	−0.017	−0.022	−0.025
Some college	0.51	0.41	0.39	0.50	0.41	0.38	−0.017	−0.021	−0.023
College grad+	0.53	0.42	0.40	0.52	0.41	0.39	−0.017	−0.023	−0.023
All	0.48	0.35	0.34	0.47	0.34	0.33	−0.017	−0.022	−0.024
Native Hispanic men
	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000
Less than high school	0.63	0.39	0.34	0.62	0.38	0.33	−0.013	−0.019	−0.019
High school exactly	0.64	0.46	0.41	0.63	0.46	0.40	−0.012	−0.017	−0.018
Some college	0.62	0.51	0.46	0.61	0.50	0.45	−0.015	−0.017	−0.020
College grad+	0.56	0.46	0.40	0.55	0.45	0.39	−0.019	−0.022	−0.024
All	0.62	0.46	0.41	0.61	0.46	0.40	−0.014	−0.018	−0.020

Note: Results based on baseline model. Reference group medians have been artificially increased by 10 percent and the status of under the reference group median and the ratio of income to the median have been recalculated for each individual.