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Title: Are Healthier People More Likely to Marry? An Event History Analysis Based on NLSY
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Fu, Haishan Goldman, Noreen |
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Are Healthier People More Likely to Marry? An Event History Analysis Based on NLSY Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Event History; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the possible selection of men and women into first marriage based on their health status and health-related behaviors. It incorporates the economic, sociological, and sociopsychological perspectives on the marriage selection process, while adding another dimension to the existing literature by recognizing the potential importance of both the direct and mediating effects of health characteristics. Relying on individual- level prospective information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this analysis focuses on the timing of first marriage among non-Hispanic white males and females in the sample. The proposed hypotheses relating health status and health-related behaviors to the likelihood of first marriage at each age are tested by using statistical models associated with event history analysis. |
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Fu, Haishan and Noreen Goldman. "Are Healthier People More Likely to Marry? An Event History Analysis Based on NLSY." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. |