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Title: Contextual Influences on Young Men's Transition to First Marriage
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Lloyd, Kim Marie South, Scott J. |
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Contextual Influences on Young Men's Transition to First Marriage Working Paper, Albany, NY: Department of Sociology, State University of New York - Albany, June 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Sociology, State University of New York - Albany Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Earnings; Event History; Home Ownership; Marriage; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While recent theories of woman's marital entry have emphasized the influence of local marriage market characteristics, few studies have examined the effects of these and other contextual variables on men's transition to marriage. The present analysis begins to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the social context in which men make marital decisions. Competing theories of marriage formation are evaluated by merging several contextual variables, primarily marriage market characteristics from the 1980 Census, with men's marital histories available in the 1979 through 1984 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Discrete-time event history models reveal that, net of conventional individual-level predictors, a shortage of prospective partners in the local marriage market impedes white men's transition to first marriage. Women's aggregate economic independence, measured in terms of the proportion of females in the local marriage market who are employed andthe size of average AFDC payments, also diminish men's marriage propensities. Although annual earnings and home ownership facilitate men's marital transitions, racial differences in socioeconomic and marriage market characteristics account for relatively little of the substantial racial difference in marriage. |
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Lloyd, Kim Marie and Scott J. South. "Contextual Influences on Young Men's Transition to First Marriage." Working Paper, Albany, NY: Department of Sociology, State University of New York - Albany, June 1994. |