“Everything's There Except Money”: How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry Among Cohabitors.
Cohabitation is now the modal path to marriage in the United States. Drawing on data from 115 in-depth interviews with cohabitors from the working and lower middle classes, this paper explores how economics shape marital decision making. We find that cohabitors typically perceive financial issues as...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Marriage & Family Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 680 - 697 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
August 2005
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