Proximate Sources of Change in Trajectories of First Marriage in the United States, 1960-2010.

ABSTRACT: This study examines proximate sources of change in first-marriage trajectories in the United States between 1960 and 2010. This was a period of tremendous social change: divorce became more common, people started marrying later or not marrying at all, innovations in medicine and changes in social and behavioral factors led to reduced mortality, inequality grew stronger and was reflected by more intense assortative mating, and the country underwent a massive educational expansion. Each of these factors influenced the formation and dissolution of first marriages over this period. This article extends the multiple-decrement life table to incorporate heterogeneity and assortative mating, which allows the quantification of how changes in the incidence of marriage, divorce, and mortality, along

SUBMITTER: Hendi AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6827978 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature