cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …

marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …

Non-marital cohabitation is a rapidly growing global phenomenon. Prior literature examines the puzzling empirical … regularity that premarital cohabitation is associated with higher divorce rates. Since cohabitation should yield improved match … cohabitation paths to marriage in which higher relationship exit costs for cohabitors relative to daters generates the observed …