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Title: Contextual Influences on the Transition to Cohabitation Throughout the Young Adult Years: Differences by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
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1. Lloyd, Kim Marie
Contextual Influences on the Transition to Cohabitation Throughout the Young Adult Years: Differences by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Coresidence; Ethnic Differences; Event History; Gender Differences; Life Course; Marriage; Racial Differences

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The use of cohabitation as either a prelude to marriage or a substitute for establishing a legal union has increased dramatically among recent cohorts of young adults. Cohabitation is becoming a normative, albeit, not fully understood, stage in the life course with important implications for other familial events. It is suprising, therefore, that research is lacking on the contextual environment that facilitates or impedes the creation of coresidential unions. The present analysis begins to address these issues by investigating the social context in which young people make decisions to cohabit. Competing theories of traditional union formation are evaluated by merging several contextual variables with respondent histories avaialble (sic) in the NLSY. Preliminary analysis of discrete-time event history models reveal that, net of cenventional (sic) individual-level predictors, socioeconomic and mate availability measures play a significant role in coresidential union formation. Racial/gender differences and the implications of applying current marriage market theories to cohabitational relationships are explored.
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Lloyd, Kim Marie. "Contextual Influences on the Transition to Cohabitation Throughout the Young Adult Years: Differences by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998.