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Title: Cohabiting and Marriage Formation During Young Men's Career Development Process
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1. Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid
Cohabiting and Marriage Formation During Young Men's Career Development Process
On-Line Working Paper Series: CCPR-004-02 , California Center for Population Research, University of California - Los Angeles, September 2002.
Also: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/85d3283r
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: California Center for Population Research (CCPR)
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Cohabitation; Event History; Male Sample; Marriage

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Revised version of a paper presented at the 2001 PAA annual meetings.
Using recently released cohabitation data for NLSY79 males, this study conducts multinomial discrete-time event history-analyses of how young men's career development process affects both the formation and dissolution of cohabiting unions. For a substantial proportion of young men, cohabitation seems to represent an adaptive strategy during a period of career immaturity, as measured by employment instability, while marriage was a far more likely outcome for both stably employed cohabitors and noncohabitors alike. Earnings positively affected the entry into either a cohabiting or marital union and exhibited a strong threshold effect. However, consistent with a selectivity argument, once cohabiting, earnings had little effect on the odds of marrying out of a cohabitation although higher earnings did discourage separations among whites. Men with better long-run socioeconomic prospects, i.e., the college educated, were far more likely to marry from either the noncohabiting or cohabiting state and this was particularly true for blacks.
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Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid. "Cohabiting and Marriage Formation During Young Men's Career Development Process." On-Line Working Paper Series: CCPR-004-02 , California Center for Population Research, University of California - Los Angeles, September 2002.