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Title: Living Together: The Economics of Cohabitation

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Cohabitation is an increasingly prevalent lifestyle in the United States. The share of 30- to 44-year-olds living as unmarried couples has more than doubled since the mid-1990s. Adults with lower levels of educationwithout college degreesare twice as likely to cohabit as those withcollege degrees.A new Pew Research Center analysis of census data suggests that less-educated adults are less likely to realize the economic benefits associated with cohabitation. The typical college-educated cohabiter is at least as well off as a comparably educated married adult and better off than an adult without an opposite-sex partner. By contrast, a cohabiter without a college degree typically is worse off than a comparably educated married adult and no better offeconomically than an adult without an opposite-sex partner. (Most adults without opposite-sex partners live with other adults or children.)

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Authors: Velasco, Gabriel; Fry, Richard; Wang, Wendy; Taylor, Paul; Cohn, D'Vera; Dockterman, Daniel

Publisher: Pew Research Center

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Housing and Segregation, Other

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