Abstract
<p class="MsoBlockText" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data base is used to explore the effects of changes in marital status on the standard of living of a sample of young adults. OLS regression analysis indicates that changes in marital status have very different effects on young women and young men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Women receive large increases in their income-to-needs ratios when they marry, and they incur large declines in their income-to-needs ratios after experiencing a divorce or separation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Men, on the other hand, do not experience significant changes in their income-to-needs ratios when their marital status changes.</span></span></span></p>
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