Search Results
Title: The Impact of Non-traditional College-going on Entry into Marriage and Divorce
Resulting in 1 citation.
| 1. |
Monaghan, David B. |
|
The Impact of Non-traditional College-going on Entry into Marriage and Divorce Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Divorce; Education, Adult; Marital History/Transitions; Marriage; Modeling, Marginal Structural Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Today, participation in higher education has expanded well beyond the 18-23 year age range; nearly 40% of all undergraduates are at least 25 years of age. However, most scholarship on the relationship between education and marriage implicitly assumes that individuals obtain all of their education in their youth, in one spell, and prior to attaining other major adult statuses. As a result, we know little about how college-going at older ages impacts one's transitions into and out of marriage. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, I ask how college enrollment and bachelor’s completion at older ages impacts 1) entry into marriage for those unmarried at 25, and 2) dissolution of existing unions. Because time-varying confounders are endogenous with the independent variables of interest, I employ marginal structural models to estimate the independent impacts of educational variables. There does not appear to be any impact of college enrollment or completion on entry into marriage. Completing college seems to protect against divorce, but only for males. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Monaghan, David B. "The Impact of Non-traditional College-going on Entry into Marriage and Divorce." Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017. |