Stated Reasons for Relationship Dissolution in Britain: Marriage and Cohabitation Compared

Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s.

The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979-2007. Time-trends are presented, for men and women, of: the experience of different types of partnership by specified ages, the frequency of premarital cohabitation, the average time spent in different t...

The relationship between childbearing and transitions from marriage and cohabitation in Britain.

In this article, we describe a general framework for the analysis of correlated event histories, with an application to a study of partnership transitions and fertility among a cohort of British women. Using a multilevel, multistate competing-risks model, we examine the relationship between prior fertility outcomes (the presence and characteristics of children and current pregnancy) and the dis...

Marriage penalties , marriage , and cohabitation

I examine the effect of marriage penalties in the US income tax system on marital status. I construct a simulated instrument that exploits variation in the tax code over time and between US states to deal with potential endogeneity between the marriage penalty a couple faces and their marital status. I find that a $1000 increase in the marriage penalty faced reduces the probability of marriage ...

Marriage and Cohabitation in Canada

Marriage matching functions are used to study how marital patterns change when population supplies change. A behavioral marriage matching function with spillover effects is used to rationalize marriage and cohabitation behavior in contemporary Canada. The model non-parametrically identifies the systematic gains to marriage and cohabitation for a couple relative to remaining single. These gains ...

Cohabitation, marriage, relationship stability and child outcomes: an update