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– If you look at tax data, there marriage effect gets even odder. Married couples filing jointly tend not to earn twice what single individuals do, but three times as much. I think this is due to low-income individuals not seeing each other as being secure enough to marry, but it could be more insidious.
– The rise of the two-earner household show prominently in housing cost data. The second earner essentially raised the bar for how much could (and would) be spent on desirable housing, which has had the knock-on effect of making it very difficult for single individuals to find affordable housing in many denser markets.