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1. Cao, Boning
Is Higher Cognitive Ability Associated with a More Stable Marriage?
Working Paper, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research (ICPSR) 2010 Research Paper Competition, Second Place Master's Winner, 2010
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: City University of New York
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cognitive Ability; Marital Stability; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration

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Many studies have examined the impacts of common demographic characteristics on an individual’s marriage. While being widely used as an indicator of behavior in psychological studies, cognitive ability is rarely studied as a factor that affects marital stability, which highly depends on the behaviors involved in marriage. This paper investigates the relationship between an individual’s cognitive ability and marital stability. Event history analysis is conducted with Cox proportional hazard model using the data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Age-adjusted AFQT scores are used as a measure of cognitive ability. Some factors that may affect both intelligence and marital stability are included to make sure the effect of cognitive ability is not confounded. The result indicates that higher cognitive ability is associated with greater marital stability and lower risk of marital dissolution, particularly for non-Hispanic Whites.
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Cao, Boning. "Is Higher Cognitive Ability Associated with a More Stable Marriage?" Working Paper, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research (ICPSR) 2010 Research Paper Competition, Second Place Master's Winner, 2010.