Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Note: EH LS
Download full text from publisher
Other versions of this item:
- Tara Watson & Sara McLanahan, 2011. "Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 46(3), pages 482-517.
- Tara Watson & Sara McLanahan, 2009. "Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status," Working Papers 1141, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing..
References listed on IDEAS
- Neumark, David & Postlewaite, Andrew, 1998.
"Relative income concerns and the rise in married women's employment,"
Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(1), pages 157-183, October.
- David Neumark & Andrew Postlewaite, 1995. "Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment," NBER Working Papers 5044, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- repec:ebl:ecbull:v:26:y:2006:i:4:p:1-20 is not listed on IDEAS
- Andrew E. Clark & Paul Frijters & Michael A. Shields, 2008.
"Relative Income, Happiness, and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles,"
Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 46(1), pages 95-144, March.
- Clark, Andrew E. & Frijters, Paul & Shields, Michael A., 2007. "Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles," IZA Discussion Papers 2840, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Andrew E. Clark & Paul Frijters & Michael A. Shields, 2008. "Relative income, happiness, and utility: An explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-00754299, HAL.
- Andrew E. Clark & Paul Frijters & Michael A. Shields, 2008. "Relative income, happiness, and utility: An explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles," Post-Print halshs-00754299, HAL.
- Gary S. Becker, 1981. "A Treatise on the Family," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number beck81-1.
- Miller, Douglas L. & Paxson, Christina, 2006.
"Relative income, race, and mortality,"
Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(5), pages 979-1003, September.
- Douglas Miller & Christina Paxson, 2001. "Relative Income, Race, and Mortality," Working Papers 269, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Health and Wellbeing..
- David S. Loughran, 2002. "The Effect Of Male Wage Inequality On Female Age At First Marriage," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 84(2), pages 237-250, May.
- Christine Eibner & William N. Evans, 2005.
"Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits, and Mortality,"
Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 40(3).
- Christine E. Eibner & William N. Evans, 2001. "Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits and Mortality," Working Papers 265, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Health and Wellbeing..
- George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton, 2000. "Economics and Identity," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 115(3), pages 715-753.
- Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers, 2007.
"Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces,"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 21(2), pages 27-52, Spring.
- Wolfers, Justin & Stevenson, Betsey, 2007. "Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces," CEPR Discussion Papers 6144, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers, 2007. "Marriage and divorce: changes and their driving forces," Working Paper Series 2007-03, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
- Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers, 2007. "Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces," NBER Working Papers 12944, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Stevenson, Betsey & Wolfers, Justin, 2007. "Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces," IZA Discussion Papers 2602, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Gould, Eric D. & Paserman, M. Daniele, 2003.
"Waiting for Mr. Right: rising inequality and declining marriage rates,"
Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(2), pages 257-281, March.
- Gould, Eric & Paserman, Daniele, 2002. "Waiting for Mr Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates," CEPR Discussion Papers 3388, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Justina A.V. Fischer & Benno Torgler, 2006. "The Effect of Relative Income Position on Social Capital," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 26(4), pages 1-20.
- Erzo F. P. Luttmer, 2005.
"Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 120(3), pages 963-1002.
- Luttmer, Erzo F. P., 2004. "Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being," Working Paper Series rwp04-029, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Erzo F.P. Luttmer, 2004. "Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being," NBER Working Papers 10667, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Mary C. Daly & Daniel J. Wilson & Norman J. Johnson, 2013.
"Relative Status and Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Suicide Deaths,"
The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 95(5), pages 1480-1500, December.
- Mary C. Daly & Norman J. Johnson & Daniel J. Wilson, 2007. "Relative status and well-being: evidence from U.S. suicide deaths," Working Paper Series 2007-12, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
- Mary C. Daly & Norman J. Johnson & Daniel J. Wilson, 2012. "Relative status and well-being: evidence from U.S. suicide deaths," Working Paper Series 2012-16, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
- David Albouy, 2008. "Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas," NBER Working Papers 14472, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Cevdet Denizer & Holger C. Wolf, 1998.
"Household Savings in Transition Economies,"
NBER Working Papers
6457, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Denizer, Cevdet & Wolf, Holger C. & Ying, Yvonne, 2000. "Household savings in transition economies," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2299, The World Bank.
- Benno Torgler & Sascha Schmidt, 2007.
"What shapes player performance in soccer? Empirical findings from a panel analysis,"
Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(18), pages 2355-2369.
- Benno Torgler & Sascha Schmidt, 2005. "What Shapes Players? Performance in Soccer? Empirical Findings from a Panel Analysis," CREMA Working Paper Series 2005-25, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), revised Jan 2006.
- Daniel Lichter & Zhenchao Qian & Leanna Mellott, 2006. "Marriage or dissolution? Union transitions among poor cohabiting women," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 43(2), pages 223-240, May.
- Kate Antonovics & Robert Town, 2004.
"Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(2), pages 317-321, May.
- Antonovics, Kate & Town, Robert, 2003. "Are All The Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium," University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series qt06s8022j, Department of Economics, UC San Diego.
- Christopher Brown & Randall Kesselring, 2003. "Female Headship and the Economic Status of Young Men in the United States, 1977-2001," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(2), pages 343-351, June.
- David Lam, 1988. "Marriage Markets and Assortative Mating with Household Public Goods: Theoretical Results and Empirical Implications," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 23(4), pages 462-487.
- Nancy R. Burstein, 2007. "Economic influences on marriage and divorce," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(2), pages 387-429.
- Robert J. Willis, 1999. "A Theory of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 107(S6), pages 33-64, December.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Robert Rudolf, 2014. "Work Shorter, Be Happier? Longitudinal Evidence from the Korean Five-Day Working Policy," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 15(5), pages 1139-1163, October.
- B. Curtis Eaton & Mukesh Eswaran, 2009.
"Well‐being and Affluence in the Presence of a Veblen Good,"
Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 119(539), pages 1088-1104, July.
- B.Curtis Eaton & Mukesh Eswaran, 2009. "Well-being and Affluence in the Presence of a Veblen Good," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 119(539), pages 1088-1104, July.
- Pinghui Wu, 2022. "Wage Inequality and the Rise in Labor Force Exit: The Case of US Prime-Age Men," Working Papers 22-16, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
- Walter Hyll, 2017. "Gender Quotas and Human Capital Formation: A Relative Deprivation Approach," German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 18(3), pages 302-326, August.
- Stark, Oded & Jakubek, Marcin, 2013.
"Integration as a catalyst for assimilation,"
International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 28(C), pages 62-70.
- Stark, Oded & Jakubek, Marcin, 2013. "Integration as a catalyst for assimilation," University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics 59, University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics.
- Stark, Oded & Jakubek, Marcin, 2013. "Integration as a catalyst for assimilation," Discussion Papers 155148, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF).
- Chaudhry, Azam & Garner, Phillip, 2013. "The political economy of income comparisons and economic growth," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 31(C), pages 214-222.
- Shelly Lundberg & Robert A. Pollak, 2014. "Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950–2010," NBER Chapters, in: Human Capital in History: The American Record, pages 241-272, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Dirk Bethmann & Robert Rudolf, 2018.
"Happily ever after? Intrahousehold bargaining and the distribution of utility within marriage,"
Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 347-376, June.
- Dirk Bethmann & Robert Rudolf, 2015. "Happily ever after? Intrahousehold bargaining and the distribution of utility within marriage," Discussion Paper Series 1503, Institute of Economic Research, Korea University.
- Michael D. Carr & Arjun Jayadev, 2015. "Relative Income and Indebtedness: Evidence from Panel Data," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 61(4), pages 759-772, December.
- Shigeoka, Hitoshi & Yamada, Katsunori, 2019. "Income-comparison attitudes in the United States and the United Kingdom: Evidence from discrete-choice experiments," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 414-438.
- Kang, Songman & Son, Hyelim & Song, B.K., 2023. "The effect of housing price inequality on mental health," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
- Akay, Alpaslan & Martinsson, Peter & Ralsmark, Hilda, 2019. "Relative concerns and sleep behavior," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 1-14.
- Takahashi, Ana Maria, 2016. "Job stress in Japanese academia: The role of relative income, time allocation by task, and children," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 12-17.
- Lundberg, Shelly & Pollak, Robert, 2013.
"Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010,"
IZA Discussion Papers
7607, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Shelly Lundberg & Robert A. Pollak, 2013. "Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010," NBER Working Papers 19413, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Oded Stark & Wiktor Budzinski, 2021.
"A social‐psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s measures of inequality and social welfare,"
Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 74(4), pages 552-566, November.
- Stark, Oded & Budzinski, Wiktor, 2021. "A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s measures of inequality and social welfare," Discussion Papers 313522, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF).
- Stark, Oded & Budzinski, Wiktor, 2021. "A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare," IZA Discussion Papers 14761, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Stark, Oded & Budzinski, Wiktor, 2021. "A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen's measures of inequality and social welfare," University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics 151, University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics.
- Ronald Mincy & Jennifer Hill & Marilyn Sinkewicz, 2009. "Marriage: Cause or mere indicator of future earnings growth?," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(3), pages 417-439.
- Duclos, Jean-Yves, 2006.
"Liberté ou égalité?,"
L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 82(4), pages 441-476, décembre.
- Jean-Yves Duclos, 2006. "Liberté ou égalité?," Cahiers de recherche 0630, CIRPEE.
- Eiji Yamamura & Fumio Ohtake, 2024.
"Family structure, gender, and subjective well-being: effect of children before and after COVID-19 in Japan,"
The Japanese Economic Review, Springer, vol. 75(4), pages 611-635, December.
- Eiji Yamamura & Fumio Ohtake, 2023. "Family Structure, Gender and Subjective Well-being: Effect of Child ren before and after COVID 19 in Japan," Papers 2312.04411, arXiv.org.
- Alpaslan Akay & Gökhan Karabulut & Peter Martinsson, 2013.
"The effect of religiosity and religious festivals on positional concerns -- an experimental investigation of Ramadan,"
Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(27), pages 3914-3921, September.
- Akay, Alpaslan & Karabulut, Gökhan & Martinsson, Peter, 2011. "The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan," IZA Discussion Papers 6172, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Budría, Santiago & Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada, 2012.
"Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills,"
IZA Discussion Papers
6419, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Santi Budria & Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2015. "Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills," Working Papers 733, Barcelona School of Economics.
- Santi Budria & Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2012. "Income Comparisons and Non-cognitive Skills," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 441, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
More about this item
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2009-03-07 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2009-03-07 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:14773. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/nberrus.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.