A review of the antecedents of union dissolution

TH Lyngstad, M Jalovaara - Demographic research, 2010 - JSTOR
The question of what factors contribute to the stability of coresidential partnerships has
attracted the attention of many social scientists. This study summarizes recent research on …

Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s

É Beaujouan, M Ní Bhrolcháin - Population trends, 2011 - Springer
The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over
several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General …

Reassessing the link between premarital cohabitation and marital instability

S Reinhold - Demography, 2010 - Springer
Premarital cohabitation has been found to be positively correlated with the likelihood of
marital dissolution in the United States. To reassess this link, I estimate proportional hazard …

Premarital cohabitation and divorce: Support for the “trial marriage” theory?

H Kulu, PJ Boyle - Demographic Research, 2010 - JSTOR
A number of studies show that premarital cohabitation is associated with an increased risk of
subsequent marital dissolution. Some argue that this is a consequence of selection effects …

Marriage and the city: Search frictions and sorting of singles

PA Gautier, M Svarer, CN Teulings - Journal of Urban Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper develops and tests a model where cities play an important role as marriage
markets. The idea is simple. Cities are dense areas where singles can meet more potential …

What tears couples apart: A machine learning analysis of union dissolution in Germany

B Arpino, M Le Moglie, L Mencarini - Demography, 2022 - read.dukeupress.edu
This study contributes to the literature on union dissolution by adopting a machine learning
(ML) approach, specifically Random Survival Forests (RSF). We used RSF to analyze data …

Long‐Term consequences of early parenthood

ER Johansen, HS Nielsen… - Journal of Marriage and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The study examines how early parenthood affects mothers and fathers of different
ages, family backgrounds, and cohabitation status. Background Although having children at …

Understanding the effects of marriage and divorce on financial investments: The role of background risk sharing

C Christiansen, JS Joensen, J Rangvid - Economic Inquiry, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate how changes in marital status affect financial investments and how these
effects vary with background risk. We use detailed register‐based panel data and difference …

Marriage migration: just another case of positive assortative matching?

A Çelikaksoy, HS Nielsen, M Verner - Review of Economics of the …, 2006 - Springer
It is a stylized fact that marriage formation involves positive assortative matching on
education. We also find this in the case of immigrants, even when they tend to “import” their …

The dynamics of marriage and divorce

G Bruze, M Svarer, Y Weiss - Journal of Labor Economics, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using
panel data on two cohorts of Danish men and women. The marital surplus is identified from …