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Author: Hargens, Lowell L.
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1. Hargens, Lowell L.
Incidence of First-Marriage Divorce among Women in the 1979 Panel of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Demographic Research 40,52 (June 2019): 1529-1536.
Also: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26727041
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Keyword(s): Divorce; Marital Status

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OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to determine whether the likelihood of first-marriage divorce among a cohort of women who have been adults during the years of the US 'divorce plateau' matches the level implied by period rates of first-marriage divorce during those years.

METHODS: I use marital histories for women in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to examine the current status of their first marriages and also carry out a survival analysis that takes into account right censoring and the competing risks of death and widowhood.

RESULTS: It is likely that at least half of the first marriages of the women in the NLSY79 sample have already ended in divorce, a level notably higher than those implied by analyses based on period rates.

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Hargens, Lowell L. "Incidence of First-Marriage Divorce among Women in the 1979 Panel of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Demographic Research 40,52 (June 2019): 1529-1536.