...Jui-Chung Allen Li; Lawrence L. Wu Abstract Previous studies on trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce have produced mixed findings, with two studies (McLanahan and Bumpass 1988; Teachman 2002) reporting no trend in divorce transmission and one study (Wolfinger 1999) finding...

...Audrey Light; Taehyun Ahn Abstract Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky...

...Marika Jalovaara Abstract This study investigated the joint effects of spouses’ socioeconomic positions on the risk of divorce in Finland. For couples in which both partners were at the lowest educational level, the risk of divorce was lower than could be expected on the basis of the previously...

...Jay D. Teachman Abstract Over the past quarter-century, many covariates of divorce have been identified. However, the extent to which the effects of these covariates remain constant across time is not known. In this article, I examine the stability of the effects of a wide range of divorce...

...Joshua R. Goldstein Abstract Is the recent plateau in crude divorce rates due to compositional changes in the married population or to a fundamental change in the long-term trend of rising marital instability? I use refined measures of period divorce rates to show that the leveling of divorce rates...

...Nicholas H. Wolfinger Abstract I use data from the 1973-1996 NORC General Social Survey to examine trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce. the propensity for the children of divorce to end their own marriages. The rate of divorce transmission declined by almost 50% in the study...

..." Age of Youngest Child Contested Divorcee Father Resides out of State" High Preseparation Parental Involvement" Father at Least 50% of Preseparation Involvement" Duration of Marriage Father Not Located" Changed Residential Custody" -0.262** (1.96) 0.158** 0.221 (2.11) (2.67) -0.038 -0.022 (0.89) (0.47...

...Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.; Saul D. Hoffman; Laura Shrestha Abstract This paper draws on new data on intergenerational transfers of time and money that were collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We use these data to examine the effects of divorce on these transfers. We find...

...Andrew J. Cherlin; Kathleen E. Kiernan; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Abstract We investigated the long-term effects of parental divorce in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood, using a British longitudinal national survey of children. Our analyses control for predisruption...

...William G. Axinn; Arland Thornton Abstract Recent evidence linking premarital cohabitation to high rates of divorce poses a complex theoretical and empirical puzzle. We develop hypotheses predicting that premarital cohabitation is selective of those who are prone to divorce as well as hypotheses...

... intend to divorce, but at the judicial system. A new legislation, however, also can alter collective images, can establish new boundaries between what is and is not socially objectionable, and eventually can cause changes in mentality and, indirectly, in behavior. The stigma attached to divorcees...

...Noreen Goldman Abstract A new interpretation of mathematical formulas developed by Keyfitz illustrates how the concept of entropy ( H ) can be applied to the analysis of marriage dissolution. The quantities H (divorce) and H (widowhood) indicate the changes in marriage duration which would result...

...Robert Schoen; William Urton; Karen Woodrow; John Bai Abstract The significance of recent changes in marriage and divorce in the United States is examined from a cohort perspective. Marital status life tables, following birth cohorts through life and through the statuses of Never Married, Presently...

... of the economic consequences of divorce . Demography , 22 , 485 – 497 . 10.2307/2061584 Duncan , G. J. , & Holfman , S. D. ( 1985 ). Economic consequences of marital instability . In M. David , & T. Smeeding (Eds.), Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well...

...Robert T. Michael Abstract This paper uses vital statistics data from 15 states in the Divorce Registration Area to decompose into age-specific components the rise in the aggregate divorce rate between 1960and 1974. While women in their twenties comprise only about 20 percent of the married...

...Wendy Sigle-Rushton; John Hobcraft; Kathleen Kiernan Abstract Although many studies have examined the link between parental divorce and subsequent wellbeing, some theories of the effects of divorce suggest that the negative associations should have declined over time. However, few studies have...

... on marriages and divorces during 1989–2000 to examine the role of welfare reform (state waivers and implementation of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) and other state-level variables on flows into and out of marriage. The results indicate that welfare reform has led to fewer new divorces and fewer new...

... (Koran 1985:26); divorcees are less likely to suffer stigma. Uygur women can return to their par- ents home to obtain financial and emotional support after FIGURE 1. REGIONAL DIFFERENTIALS OF GENERAL DIVORCE RATES IN MAINLAND CHINA IN 1990 2. High divorce rates also have been observed among Islamic...