Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants This paper examines the relationship between interethnic marriages and economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States. Two competing hypotheses are evaluated: the productivity hypothesis, according to which immigrants married to native-born spouses assimilate faster than comparable immigrants married to foreign-born spou...

Results: Of the 230 siblings enrolled, complete data was available for 197. Mean age of index sibling, (n=112) was 34 ± 10.7; referent: (n=85)35.7±10.5 (p=0.24). Of 230 spouses enrolled, complete data was available for 187 spouses-mean age of index spouse, (n=84), was 49.6±11.0; referent: (n=103) 48.7±9.3 (p=0.1). No significant association in overall prevalence of MS in sibling and spouse of i...

Results: Of the 230 siblings enrolled, complete data was available for 197. Mean age of index sibling, (n=112) was 34 ± 10.7; referent: (n=85)35.7±10.5 (p=0.24). Of 230 spouses enrolled, complete data was available for 187 spouses-mean age of index spouse, (n=84), was 49.6±11.0; referent: (n=103) 48.7±9.3 (p=0.1). No significant association in overall prevalence of MS in sibling and spouse of i...

We use prospective couple-level data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples to assess the extent to which spouses concur in their assessments of marital quality (N= 844) and whether discrepancies in spouses’ marital assessments affect the bereaved spouse’s psychological adjustment 6 months after loss (n= 105). Spouses’ assessments of marital quality are correlated modestly (r= .45), with wome...

Home care for the elderly has a great ally in the family caregiver, in general a spouse. However, these spouses frequently have health complaints themselves. To understand the meaning of health for elderly spouses who are caregivers, to know the changes in their health after taking this role and to learn how they take care of their own health, the authors developed an exploratory qualitative st...

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balan...

Research suggests that presurgical personality attributes influence postsurgical well-being in both patients and their spouses in the context of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. The authors hypothesized that a spouse’s characteristics would influence a partner’s psychological well-being, regardless of whether he or she was the patient or the caregiver. In this study, 111 male pat...

PURPOSE To examine the importance of genetic factors in age-related macular degeneration by using a twin study to compare the concordance of age-related macular degeneration in monozygotic twin pairs and their spouses. METHODS This was a prospective study that included 50 twin pairs and 47 spouses. Zygosity was determined by genetic laboratory testing. Macular findings were graded based on th...

We explored whether gender moderated the influence of other factors on solo spousal caregiving. The subsample (N = 452) from the AHEAD study included elderly care recipients (CRs) receiving IADL assistance and their spouses. Logistic regression modeled the likelihood of solo spousal IADL care. Gender moderation was tested by product terms between CRs' gender and measures of partners' health, po...