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Title: Cohabiting and Marriage During Young Men's Career-Development Process
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Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid |
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Cohabiting and Marriage During Young Men's Career-Development Process Demography 40,1 (February 2003): 127-149. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/b375408371723548/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Cohabitation; Event History; Male Sample; Marriage; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using recently released cohabitation data for the male sample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, first interviewed in 1979, I conducted multinomial discrete-time event-history analyses of how young men's career-development process affects both the formation and the dissolution of cohabiting unions. For a substantial proportion of young men, cohabitation seemed to represent an adaptive strategy during a period of career immaturity, whereas marriage was a far more likely outcome for both stably employed cohabitors and noncohabitors alike. Earnings positively affected the entry into either a cohabiting or marital union but exhibited a strong threshold effect. Once the men were in cohabiting unions, however, earnings had little effect on the odds of marrying. Men with better long-run socioeconomic prospects were far more likely to marry from either the noncohabiting or cohabiting state, and this was particularly true for blacks. |
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Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid. "Cohabiting and Marriage During Young Men's Career-Development Process." Demography 40,1 (February 2003): 127-149.
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