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The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, and Condom Use With Spouses

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Theresa M. Fedor, Hans-Peter Kohler, Jere R. Behrman
Demography (2015) 52 (1): 259–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0364-z
Published: 13 January 2015
...Theresa M. Fedor; Hans-Peter Kohler; Jere R. Behrman Abstract This article assesses how married individuals’ knowledge of HIV status gained through HIV testing and counseling (HTC) affects divorce, the number of sexual partners, and the use of condoms within marriage. This study improves upon...
View articletitled, The Impact of <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> <span class="search-highlight">Individuals</span> Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, and Condom Use With Spouses View PDF for article titled, The Impact of <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> <span class="search-highlight">Individuals</span> Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, and Condom Use With Spouses
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Cohabitation History, Marriage, and Wealth Accumulation

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Jonathan Vespa, Matthew A. Painter, II
Demography (2011) 48 (3): 983–1004.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0043-2
Published: 21 June 2011
... individuals in light of their premarital cohabitation histories. Over time, marriage positively correlates with wealth accumulation. Most married persons with a premarital cohabitation history have wealth trajectories that are indistinguishable from those without cohabitation experience, with one exception...
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For Better or Worse: The Health Implications of Marriage Separation Due to Migration in Rural China

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Feinian Chen, Hui Liu, Kriti Vikram, Yu Guo
Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1321–1343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0399-9
Published: 23 June 2015
...Feinian Chen; Hui Liu; Kriti Vikram; Yu Guo Abstract Massive rural-to-urban migration in China has led to spatial separation of millions of married couples. In this article, we examine the question of whether the well-documented health benefits of marriage extend to left-behind individuals in rural...
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Marriage Markets and Intermarriage: Exchange in First Marriages and Remarriages

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Zhenchao Qian, Daniel T. Lichter
Demography (2018) 55 (3): 849–875.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0671-x
Published: 24 April 2018
... for exchange, both as complements and substitutes. We apply conditional logit models to show how patterns of assortative mating among never-married and previously married persons are subject to local marriage market opportunities and constraints. The results reveal that previously married individuals “cast...
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Spousal Mobility and Earnings

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Terra McKinnish
Demography (2008) 45 (4): 829–849.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0028
Published: 01 November 2008
... Microdata Sample from the 2000 U.S. decennial census is used to calculate migration rates by occupation and education. The analysis estimates the effects of these occupational mobility measures on the migration of couples and the earnings of married individuals. I find that migration rates in both...
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Bisexuality, Union Status, and Gender Composition of the Couple: Reexamining Marital Advantage in Health

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Ning Hsieh, Hui Liu
Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1791–1825.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00813-2
Published: 19 September 2019
...Ning Hsieh; Hui Liu Abstract It has long been documented that married individuals have better health outcomes than unmarried individuals. However, this marital advantage paradigm has been developed primarily based on heterosexual populations. No studies to date have examined the health effects...
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Partnership Status, Health, and Mortality: Selection or Protection?

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Hill Kulu, Júlia Mikolai, Sebastian Franke
Demography (2024) 61 (1): 189–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11147861
Published: 01 February 2024
...Hill Kulu; Júlia Mikolai; Sebastian Franke Abstract Married individuals have better health and lower mortality than nonmarried people. Studies show that when cohabitants are distinguished from other nonmarried groups, health differences between partnered and nonpartnered individuals become even...
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Multivariate survivorship analysis using two cross-sectional samples

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Mark E. Hill
Demography (1999) 36 (4): 497–503.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648086
Published: 01 November 1999
... marriage among a cohort of never-married individuals). Using data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (Ruggles and Sobek 1997), I illustrate the multivariate method through an investigation of the effects of race, parity, and educational attainment on the survival of older women in the United...
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Linked Lives, Dependent Demise? Survival Analysis of Husbands and Wives

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Ken R. Smith, Cathleen D. Zick
Demography (1994) 31 (1): 81–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061909
Published: 01 February 1994
...Ken R. Smith; Cathleen D. Zick Abstract Past research has found that married individuals have substantially lower risks of mortality than their single counterparts. This paper examines how household characteristics affect spouses’ risks of mortality. A paired hazard rate model is estimated...
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The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands

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Mircea Trandafir
Demography (2014) 51 (1): 317–340.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0248-7
Published: 05 November 2013
... confirm the findings in the aggregate analysis. The effects of the two laws are heterogeneous, with presumably more-liberal individuals (as defined by their residence or ethnicity) marrying less after passage of both laws and potentially more-conservative individuals marrying more after passage of each...
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Divorce, Separation, and Housing Changes: A Multiprocess Analysis of Longitudinal Data from England and Wales

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Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 83–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0640-9
Published: 10 January 2018
... the risk of a move of single, married, cohabiting, and separated men and women to different housing types. We distinguish moves due to separation from moves of separated people and account for unobserved codeterminants of moving and separation risks. Our analysis shows that many individuals move due...
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Explaining the Effect of Parent-Child Coresidence on Marriage Formation: The Case of Japan

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Wei-hsin Yu, Janet Chen-Lan Kuo
Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1283–1318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0494-6
Published: 13 September 2016
... individuals’ selection into living in the parental home. The analysis indicates that living with parents is associated with a lower probability of forming romantic relationships, thereby decelerating the transition to first marriage. The never-married, however, do not desire marriage less, put less effort...
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Remarriage and divorce rates. Divorce rates are defined as the number of divorces in the year 2000 per 100 married individuals in a country. Remarriage rates, the number of married people (conditional on having ever divorced) divided by the number of people who have ever divorced, were calculated by the authors using data from the 1999–2004 World Values Survey (WSV) (WSV Association 2000) on a sample of individuals aged 25–64. The two-letter codes for countries were obtained from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). No data were available for Albania, Norway, and Switzerland. Circle sizes represent country populations estimated using WVS weighted observations

Remarriage and divorce rates. Divorce rates are defined as the number of di...

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in Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States > Demography
Published: 16 January 2013
Fig. 1 Remarriage and divorce rates. Divorce rates are defined as the number of divorces in the year 2000 per 100 married individuals in a country. Remarriage rates, the number of married people (conditional on having ever divorced) divided by the number of people who have ever divorced, were More
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International Migration and Educational Assortative Mating in Mexico and the United States

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Kate H. Choi, Robert D. Mare
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 449–476.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0095-y
Published: 15 March 2012
... their spouses on the date of the interview were single return migrants prior to marriage. Because single return migrants are more likely than nonmigrants to “marry up” educationally, the exclusion of these individuals and their spouses may understate the degree to which migration reduces homogamy. 3...
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Fig. 2 alt-text: Line graphs showing the probability of depressive symptoms by widowhood period, for five groups of individuals, between 2007 and 2021 (with the 2017 value indicated by horizontal dashed lines).

Change in probability of depressive symptoms by widowhood period. The figur...

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in Government Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Depressive Symptoms Following Widowhood > Demography
Published: 01 February 2025
Fig. 2 Change in probability of depressive symptoms by widowhood period. The figure shows within-individual estimates for the change in probability of reporting depression among the SHARE panel between 2007 and 2021 (relative to the 2017 wave) for five groups: (1) continuously married individuals More
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Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Matters for the Subjective Well-being of Individuals in Same-Sex Unions

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Diederik Boertien, Daniele Vignoli
Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2109–2121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00822-1
Published: 06 November 2019
... Surveys on 476,411 persons, including 4,112 individuals in coresidential same-sex relationships. The analysis reveals increases in subjective well-being for individuals in same-sex relationships following legalization. Additional analysis documents higher subjective well-being for individuals in married...
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The Impact of HIV Testing on Subjective Expectations and Risky Behavior in Malawi

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Adeline Delavande, Hans-Peter Kohler
Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1011–1036.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0119-7
Published: 29 June 2012
... of their spouse, these effects disappear. In terms of behavioral outcomes, our analyses document that HIV-positive individuals who learned their status reported having fewer partners and using condoms more often than those who did not learn their status. Among married respondents in HIV-negative couples, learning...
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Happiness trajectory before and after the birth of the first child by marital status. Fixed-effects linear regressions. SOEP = German Socio-Economic Panel, with sample sizes of 3,402 (married) and 1,111 (not married). BHPS = British Household Panel Survey, with sample sizes of 1,623 (married) and 1,066 (not married). The model includes as control variables age and period dummy variables, and fixed effects for individuals. Standard errors are estimated using robust methods that account for the clustering of data within individuals. The test for the difference between partnered and nonpartnered is significant at p &lt; .001 (SOEP) and p &lt; .05 (BHPS). Significance markers under the x-axis are for the test between married and not married and are as follows: †p &lt; .10; *p &lt; .05; **p &lt; .01; ***p &lt; .001

Happiness trajectory before and after the birth of the first child by marit...

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in Happiness: Before and After the Kids > Demography
Published: 21 August 2014
(married) and 1,066 (not married). The model includes as control variables age and period dummy variables, and fixed effects for individuals. Standard errors are estimated using robust methods that account for the clustering of data within individuals. The test for the difference between partnered More
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Local labor markets, children and labor force participation of wives

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Ross M. Stolzenberg, Linda J. Waite
Demography (1984) 21 (2): 157–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061036
Published: 01 May 1984
...Ross M. Stolzenberg; Linda J. Waite Abstract Most research on married women’s labor force participation relates characteristics of individual women to their probability of labor force participation. Some studies relate characteristics of geographic areas to average labor force participation rates...
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Home-country divorce rates and the probability that childhood-arriving immigrants are divorced. The percentage of immigrants in the United States who are currently divorced is plotted on the y-axis, and home-country divorce rates, defined as the number of divorces in the year 2000 per 100 married individuals, are plotted on the x-axis. Circle sizes represent the number of immigrants from that particular country of origin in our U.S. census sample of childhood-arriving immigrants

Home-country divorce rates and the probability that childhood-arriving immi...

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in Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States > Demography
Published: 16 January 2013
100 married individuals, are plotted on the x -axis. Circle sizes represent the number of immigrants from that particular country of origin in our U.S. census sample of childhood-arriving immigrants More