CONTEXT Knowledge of HIV status may influence fertility desires of married men and women. There is little knowledge about the importance of this influence among monogamously married couples and how knowledge of HIV status influences use of contraception among these couples. METHODOLOGY We carried out a cross-sectional analysis of interview data collected between October 2008 and September 200...

A low level of relationship satisfaction is one of the best predictors of divorce in married couples, yet research has yet to clarify how relationship satisfaction changes during the first few years of marriage. This study sought to model the developmental trajectory of relationship satisfaction and demand-withdraw communication in newly married couples. Structural equation modeling was used to...

Abstract Married couples can face a higher or lower tax burden than cohabitating with the same income when former are taxed as one unit. I study effect of such joint taxation on marriage rate in Switzerland, where differentials between married and vary considerably across cantons. For this purpose, construct dataset containing sociodemographic -economic variables every individual living Switzer...

UNLABELLED In this study we explored the level of awareness and practice on HIV prevention among married couples from selected communities in Malawi. METHODS We carried out the study from October to December, 2008 in four communities, two each from Chiradzulu and Chikhwawa districts of Malawi. We conducted face-to-face in-depth interviews with 30 couples in each district using a semi-structur...

Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. We explore the factors that explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to quantify the contribution of different factors through a decompositi...