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Title: Family Life Course Statuses and Transitions: Relationships with Health Limitations
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Teachman, Jay D. |
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Family Life Course Statuses and Transitions: Relationships with Health Limitations Sociological Perspectives 53,2 (Summer 2010): 201–219. Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of California Press Keyword(s): Divorce; Family Structure; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Life Course; Marital Status; Marriage; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parenthood; Turbulence In this study, the author uses 25 years of data taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between family life course statuses and transitions and work-related health limitations. The author uses a detailed set of statuses and transitions that include marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and parenthood. The measures of health used tap health limitations in the kind and amount of work that can be performed. Using a fixed-effects estimator for dichotomous outcomes, the author finds that marriage is positively related to the health of men but negatively related to the health of women. The author also finds that parenthood is not related to the health of men but is positively related to the health of women. The results also indicate that statuses are more important for determining health limitations than are transitions. |
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Teachman, Jay D. "Family Life Course Statuses and Transitions: Relationships with Health Limitations." Sociological Perspectives 53,2 (Summer 2010): 201–219.
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