Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216373 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13061
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Same-sex couples' marital surplus, their excess total income over that predicted by their work times and predicted wages, increases little as the duration of their relationship lengthens. When/where same-sex marriage is legal, it rises sharply as duration increases. The availability of legal domestic partnership or civil union has no effect on the surplus. The likelihood of home ownership conditional on demographic characteristics also increases with partnerships' duration only when/where same-sex marriage is legal. These results, based on data from the American Community Survey 2013-17, support the notion that greater legal protection enhances partners' incentives to invest in their relationship.
Subjects: 
gains from marriage
same-sex partnership
home ownership
JEL: 
J12
J16
K30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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