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Title: Determinants of Divorce over the Marital Life Course
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South, Scott J. Spitze, Glenna D. |
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Determinants of Divorce over the Marital Life Course American Sociological Review 51,4 (August 1986): 583-590. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2095590 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Divorce; Educational Attainment; Life Course; Marital Stability; Racial Differences; Urbanization/Urban Living; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data from the Young and Mature Women samples of the NLS (number of cases = 8,158) are used to examine how the determinants of divorce (and separation) vary by the duration of marriage. In general, little evidence is found that the strength of previously identified predictors of divorce varies by marital duration. Variables such as race, wife's labor force participation, husband's employment, and urban residence seem to influence the probability of divorce, irrespective of the stage in the marital life course. The principal exception to this finding is the effect of wife's education, which appears to decrease the probability of divorce at early marital durations but to increase it at later durations. There is also suggestive evidence that the effects of home ownership and age at marriage may vary by marital duration. [Sociological Abstracts, Inc.] |
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South, Scott J. and Glenna D. Spitze. "Determinants of Divorce over the Marital Life Course." American Sociological Review 51,4 (August 1986): 583-590.
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