Appendix Table 5.

Quantifying the Magnitude of the Effects

Native non-Hispanic White Men
	Predicted Marriage Rates Using Actual Ref. Group Median			Predicted Marriage Rates Using 10% Higher Median			Percent Change
	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000
Less Than HS	0.640	0.489	0.418	0.628	0.477	0.406	−0.020	−0.024	−0.027
HS Exactly	0.670	0.547	0.471	0.657	0.534	0.458	−0.020	−0.024	−0.028
Some College	0.642	0.569	0.512	0.628	0.555	0.498	−0.022	−0.024	−0.028
College Grad+	0.619	0.550	0.514	0.604	0.536	0.500	−0.025	−0.027	−0.028
All	0.643	0.550	0.497	0.629	0.537	0.483	−0.022	−0.025	−0.028
Native non-Hispanic Black Men
	Predicted Marriage Rates Using Actual Ref. Group Median			Predicted Marriage Rates Using 10% Higher Median			Percent Change
	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000
Less Than HS	0.393	0.224	0.177	0.386	0.219	0.171	−0.018	−0.023	−0.030
HS Exactly	0.486	0.332	0.312	0.478	0.324	0.304	−0.017	−0.022	−0.025
Some College	0.508	0.415	0.388	0.500	0.406	0.379	−0.017	−0.021	−0.023
College Grad+	0.530	0.418	0.403	0.521	0.408	0.394	−0.017	−0.023	−0.023
All	0.475	0.352	0.338	0.467	0.345	0.329	−0.017	−0.022	−0.024
Native Hispanic Men
	Predicted Marriage Rates Using Actual Ref. Group Median			Predicted Marriage Rates Using 10% Higher Median			Percent Change
	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000	1980	1990	2000
Less Than HS	0.625	0.390	0.337	0.618	0.383	0.331	−0.013	−0.019	−0.019
HS Exactly	0.640	0.463	0.409	0.632	0.455	0.402	−0.012	−0.017	−0.018
Some College	0.616	0.509	0.456	0.607	0.501	0.447	−0.015	−0.017	−0.020
College Grad+	0.557	0.464	0.405	0.546	0.454	0.395	−0.019	−0.022	−0.024
All	0.619	0.465	0.413	0.610	0.456	0.405	−0.014	−0.018	−0.020

Note: Results based on baseline model. Reference group medians have been artifically increased by ten percent and the status of under the reference group median and the ratio of income to the median have been recalculated for each individual.