For Love or Money? The Impact of Income Taxes on Marriage
@article{Alm1999ForLO, title={For Love or Money? The Impact of Income Taxes on Marriage}, author={James Alm and Leslie A. Whittington}, journal={Economica}, year={1999}, volume={66}, pages={297-316} }
There is a large empirical literature that demonstrates the importance of economic factors in the decision to marry. Taxes, however, have been largely overlooked as a determinant of marriage, even though the tax system in the United States is not marriage-neutral; that is, when two individuals marry, their marital income tax burden is typically different--sometimes higher, sometimes lower--than their combined single income tax obligations. In this paper we explore the impact of the federal…
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