Early Teen Marriage and Future Poverty

Gordon B. Dahl

NBER Working Paper No. 11328
Issued in May 2005, Revised in March 2009

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This revised version appears under a new title. The old title was "Myopic Matrimony and Dropout Decisions: Evidence Using State Laws for Marriage, Schooling, and Work." I thank Mark Bils, David Card, David Lee, Lance Lochner, Uta Schoenberg and seminar participants at several universities for valuable comments and suggestions. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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