I look at the effects of making the exit costs of cohabitation as high as divorce on new and existing partnerships. I … exploit the Family Law Amendment Act, introduced in Australia in 2008, as an exogenous shock to the cost of exiting … cohabitation. This law defines cohabiting partnerships as de facto relationships and makes the termination of a de facto …

In this paper, the authors report on cohabitation and marriage data coming from the third wave of the National … relationships with married relationships, according to whether cohabitation preceded marriage, to obtain further insights into the … as they take on adult roles and responsibilities. Add Health employed several innovative methods to measure cohabitation …

cohabitation and adjacent residence between the young couples and their elderly parents are determined from the different reasons …