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In a recent paper, Manning et al. (Popul Res Policy Rev 23:135–139, 2004) examine the stability of marital and cohabiting unions from the perspective of children and find that children born to cohabiting parents are more likely to experience a parental separation than children born to married parents. They find, further, that subsequent marriage among cohabiting parents is associated with incre...

Research has shown considerable municipal-level variation in divorce rates within countries. Given the large increase cohabitation over past decades, this study examines whether similar differences can also be observed union dissolution risks of cohabitants. By investigating six factors important understanding spatial are associated with cohabiting unions (financial uncertainty, gender roles, r...

Very little is known about recent trends in divorce in Japan. In this paper, we use Japanese vital statistics and census data to describe trends in the experience of marital dissolution across the life course, and to examine change over time in educational differentials in divorce. Cumulative probabilities of marital dissolution have increased rapidly across successive marriage cohorts over the...

In this paper, we use a two-period one-to-one matching model with incomplete information to examine the effect of changes in divorce costs on marital dissolution. Each individual who has a nontransferable expected utility about the quality of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals married in the first period learn t...

This study contributes to the emerging demographic literature on same-sex couples by comparing the level and correlates of union stability among four types of couples: male same-sex cohabitation, female same-sex cohabitation, different-sex cohabitation, and different-sex marriage. I analyze data from two British birth cohort studies, the National Child Development Study (N = 11,469) and the 197...

The objective of this study was to learn how post-birth marriage among fragile families was related to child behavior problems by examining the (1) characteristics that predict postbirth marriage, (2) the relationship of various dimensions of post-birth marriage (i.e., occurrence, timing, identity of mother’s partner, relationship trajectory, and family instability) to child behavior problems, ...

Event history data provide a longitudinal record of the timing of events such as partnership formation and dissolution, births, and changes in employment and housing. Typically outcomes of one process will influence the occurrence of events in another process. For example the presence of children, who constitute prior outcomes of the fertility process, is often found to be negatively associated...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of HIV infection is considerable among youth, although data on risk factors for new (incident) infections are limited. We examined incidence of HIV infection and risk and protective factors among youth in rural Uganda, including the role of gender and social transitions. METHODS Participants were sexually experienced youth (15-24 years old) enrolled in the Rakai Communit...