Mine Is Yours: Modes of Expense Sharing in Married and Cohabiting Households

dc.contributor.advisorIceland, Johnen_US
dc.contributor.authorWarner, Catharine Hobarten_US
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-22T05:37:30Z
dc.date.available2007-06-22T05:37:30Z
dc.date.issued2007-05-06
dc.description.abstractRelatively little is known about differences in how married and cohabiting couples share their economic resources. Using the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), this study compares the extent of household expense sharing among married and cohabiting couples focusing on gender specialization differences between married and cohabiting couples. Current debates question the relative differences between married and cohabiting relationships. Multinomial logistic analyses suggest that relative resources indeed do much to explain who pays the majority of household expenses, but also find support for differences across family structure. Married couples are more likely than cohabiting couples to have a single male provider compared to other sharing arrangements. Households with a child not biologically related to one partner are more likely to have a female provider, while households with biological children are more likely to have a male provider.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/6923
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Individual and Family Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Demographyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledresource sharingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledincome poolingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcohabitation;en_US
dc.titleMine Is Yours: Modes of Expense Sharing in Married and Cohabiting Householdsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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