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Title: Non-marital and Marital Cohabitation Partners: Are the Effects on Marital Quality the Same?
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Beattie, Brett |
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Non-marital and Marital Cohabitation Partners: Are the Effects on Marital Quality the Same? Presented: Atlanta GA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2010 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Marital Satisfaction/Quality; Marriage; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, propensity score matching is used to estimate the effect of cohabiting on subsequent marital quality as compared to those who marry without experiencing a cohabitation. I divide the sample into two, those who only cohabited with their eventual marriage partner and those who experienced a cohabitation with a non-marital partner. I find there is no treatment effect among those whose cohabitation experience is restricted to their future spouse, while those who had a different partner experienced a decline in marital quality as compared to those with no cohabitation experience. Various matching algorithms are used and robustness tests are performed. These results suggest that it is experience of different residential partners that decreases subsequent marital quality, rather than cohabitation itself. |
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Beattie, Brett. "Non-marital and Marital Cohabitation Partners: Are the Effects on Marital Quality the Same?" Presented: Atlanta GA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2010. |