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Title: Economic Factors and Relationship Quality Among Young Couples: Comparing Cohabitation and Marriage
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1. Hardie, Jessica H.
Lucas, Amy
Economic Factors and Relationship Quality Among Young Couples: Comparing Cohabitation and Marriage
Journal of Marriage and Family 72,5 (October 2010): 1141-1154.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00755.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Economic Well-Being; Marital Conflict; Marital Satisfaction/Quality; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Are economic resources related to relationship quality among young couples, and to what extent does this vary by relationship type? To answer these questions, we estimated regression models predicting respondent reports of conflict and affection in cohabiting and married partner relationships using the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 (NLSY97, N = 2,841) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health, N = 1,702). We found that economic factors are an important predictor of conflict for both married and cohabiting couples. Affection was particularly responsive to human capital rather than short-term economic indicators. Economic hardship was associated with more conflict among married and cohabiting couples.
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Hardie, Jessica H. and Amy Lucas. "Economic Factors and Relationship Quality Among Young Couples: Comparing Cohabitation and Marriage." Journal of Marriage and Family 72,5 (October 2010): 1141-1154.