An important class of applications of measurement error or constrained factor analytic models consists of comparing models for several populations. In such cases it is appropriate to make explicit statistical tests of model similarity across groups and to constrain some model parameters to be...

This paper reports an investigation of the effects of socioeconomic and labor market factors on the dissolution of marriages since the mid-1960s. We examine the effects of possible sources of marital disruption, including poor labor market opportunities for young adults; the economic...