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Title: Stable Cohabitation and Health during the Transition to Adulthood
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Mernitz, Sara E. |
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Stable Cohabitation and Health during the Transition to Adulthood Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Health, Mental/Psychological; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. During the transition to adulthood, developing and maintaining emotional and physical intimacy with a committed romantic partner is a key developmental task. Many young adults enter into cohabiting unions to fulfill this task, with implications for health and wellbeing. Although marriage is consistently associated with better health outcomes than cohabitation, marriage is becoming less attainable for youth today. Young adults have high expectations for their marriage and marriage requires greater psychological investment. Cohabitation may provide a better alternative, resulting in more stable long-term cohabiting unions, yet the health implications of stable cohabitation are unknown. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I examine the association between stable cohabitation and emotional health. Using pooled fixed effects regression, I find preliminary evidence that transitioning from a shorter duration cohabitation into a longer stable cohabitation is associated with decreased emotional health. |
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Mernitz, Sara E. "Stable Cohabitation and Health during the Transition to Adulthood." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |