Does Being Single Get You Singles? A Look Into The Relationship Between Marital Status and Income for Millennials. — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

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Thomas Carr
Katherin Hilson
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Sarah Terrill

Does Being Single Get You Singles? A Look Into The Relationship Between Marital Status and Income for Millennials.

Name: Claire Denton
Major: Marketing and Communication
Hometown: Brookfield, WI
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Type of research: Course project

Name: Ashliegh Aybar
Major: Marketing
Hometown: Morton Grove, IL
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Type of research: Course project

Abstract

While beginning research on the topic of marital status as it relates to personal income the same was continuously found to be true; that millennials just aren’t in the market for marriage. In the article For Many Millennials, Marriage Can Wait for The Huffington Post it is stated by Gary Lee, a professor of sociology at Bowling Green State University, who is greatly interested in the declining marriage rate, that “marriage is becoming less feasible for young people because of economic uncertainty.” This idea began to seem to ring more and more true the more we continued to read. This realization lead us to question; are millennials less interested in marriage, and if so, what affect does personal income have on that? This leading us to our main question for our research: What is the relationship between marital status and total personal income for millennials?

Poster file

Submit date: March 14, 2018, 9:40 p.m.