marriage and fertility, extending them to simultaneous forecasting of multiple cohorts and to processes restricted by factors …

first births is often argued to be a consequence of the retreat from marriage, with later ages at first marriage resulting … conception is resolved by entering a first marriage before the resulting first birth (a “shotgun marriage”). For women born …

model using accounts of the cultural changes underpinning the transformation of marriage in the United States and point to …

Previous research has found a positive relationship between marriage and infant health, but it is unclear whether this … relationship is causal or a reflection of positive selection into marriage. We use multiple empirical approaches to address this … relative importance of observable characteristics, we show how selection into marriage has changed over time. Second, we …

To test the existence of the “magic moment” for parental marriage immediately post-birth and to inform policies that … preferentially encourage biological over stepparent marriage, this study estimates the incidence and stability of maternal marriage …. By age 15, 29 % of children born nonmaritally experienced a biological-father marriage, and 36 % experienced a stepfather …

Previous studies have shown that the risk of divorce is low during the first months of marriage; it then increases …, the analysis supports the rising-falling pattern of divorce by marriage duration: the risk of marital dissolution …