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Scheduling of Life Course Events, Economic Adaptations, and Marital History: An Analysis of Economic Survival after Separation and Divorce for Midlife Women Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1985 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Divorce; Earnings; Employment; Human Capital; Income; Life Course; Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES) This dissertation is a study of economic survival for women whose first marriages ended in separation or divorce compared with women who have been continuously married. Economic survival is conceptualized in several ways: personal income, poverty status, household net worth, and dollar amounts in checking and savings accounts. In the predictive model, the dependent variable is personal income. Data for the study come from the first seven waves of the NLS. From marital history data, four marital history types were created: the continuously married in first marriages; the separated or divorced who have never remarried; the currently remarried; and the previously remarried. The research analyses were performed separately for the races and the four marital history types. The questions posed in this study include the following: (1) To what extent does marital history make a difference in the process of socioeconomic attainment for midlife women? (2) In a model of economic survival, in what ways does the scheduling of life course events influence economic outcomes? (3) How do human capital variables influence economic outcomes when life course measures are included? and (4) How important are factors such as age of the respondent and number of children in the household at the time of marital disruption in predicting economic survival? Multiple regression results show that human capital variables such as continuity of employment are positively related to personal income, regardless of marital history for both races. In general, education has a positive income effect, but it is not statistically significant for all marital history groups. Life course variables are only moderately related to personal income without controlling for marital history and have negligible effects on income when marital history is held constant. A discriminant analysis of marital history shows that the four types can be statistically distinguished by life course variables such as age at first marriage. |
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Porter, Karen Louise. Scheduling of Life Course Events, Economic Adaptations, and Marital History: An Analysis of Economic Survival after Separation and Divorce for Midlife Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1985. |