The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in generat...

There is extensive evidence that married people are, on average, healthier than their unmarried counterparts. It is unclear how much this positive correlation can be explained by the selection of healthier people into marriage. In this paper, I estimate the effect of marriage relative to cohabitation on health and disability. I control for selection into marriage by instrumenting marital status...

during the stay of afghans in iran, 30 thousand afghan women married to men. marriage of iranian women to afghans is extremely worrying; in particular, 98 percent of marriages are associated with failure and homelessness. illegal marriage problems with illegal nationalities would lead to education, healthcare and housing problems for women and children contributing to confusion and homelessness...

The United States has become increasingly characterized by stark class divides in family structure. Poor women are less likely to marry than their more affluent counterparts, but far more likely to have a birth outside of marriage. Recent theoretical and qualitative work at the intersection of demography and cultural sociology suggests that these patterns are generated because poor women have h...

Time distributions between selected events for women in Japan are examined, including birth, encounter with eventual husband, marriage, and first pregnancy. The author considers attitude toward marriage and its impact on timing of events. A model is developed to project marriage age and age at first pregnancy. Data are from the 1987 National Fertility Survey. (SUMMARY IN ENG)

The United States shows striking racial and ethnic differences in marriage patterns. Compared to both white and Hispanic women, black women marry later in life, are less likely to marry at all, and have higher rates of marital instability. Kelly Raley, Megan Sweeney, and Danielle Wondra begin by reviewing common explanations for these differences, which first gained momentum in the 1960s (thoug...

Family formation changed dramatically over the 20th century in the United States. The impact of these changes on childbearing has primarily been studied in terms of nonmarital fertility. However, changes in family formation behavior also have implications for fertility within marriage. The authors used data from 10 fertility surveys to describe changes in the timing of marital childbearing from...

OBJECTIVE To identify reporting biases and to determine the influence of inconsistent reporting on observed trends in the timing of age at first sex and age at marriage. METHODS Longitudinal data from three rounds of a population-based cohort in eastern Zimbabwe were analysed. Reports of age at first sex and age at marriage from 6837 individuals attending multiple rounds were classified accor...

In this paper I use individual level data from the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine whether the strength of state child support enforcement efforts affects nonmarital birth or marriage rates. Evidence is mixed, but in the preferred specifications increased efforts at enforcement lead to a decrease in likelihood of marriage among never married childl...