Search Results for Married Life

... of involvement in this type of non-familial role, the work index or proportion of one’s married life engaged in the labor force is developed. The work index is found to be a particularly sensitive measure of involvement in the worker role vis-a-vis their fertility. The working hypothesis of this study...

...Robert Schoen; Verne E. Nelson Abstract The life status table, an analytical model which follows a birth cohort through life and through the never-married, presently married, widowed and divorced statuses, is developed and applied to data from four Western populations. Particular attention is given...

... et al. 1998 ). Women who become unmarried mothers are disadvantaged relative to married mothers regardless of their age at first motherhood (Foster et al. 1998 ). These latter studies, however, have not explored the extent to which this disadvantage persists over the life course. Much...

... into and out of first marriage is one of the most important factors structuring adult life in the contemporary United States. The overwhelming majority of Americans marry (Hendi 2015a ), and marital life course characteristics play a role in determining well-being and shaping decisions about work, retirement...

... the child’s life span. First, all children who were born after their mother’s first marriage and whose mothers are still in their first union are identified as having “continuously married” mothers (presumably married to the child’s biological father). Previous literature regarding sub-Saharan Africa suggests...

...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...

...Warren B. Miller Abstract Childbearing motivation may be conceptualized as based upon psychological traits and shaped by experiences during childhood, adolescence, and early adult life. This paper explores what those traits and developmental experiences are. Two measures of childbearing motivation...

...-structured portion that used life history calendars to collect information on important events throughout respondents’ lives, such as school attendance, work, marriage, and marital dissolution (Axinn et al. 1999 ). The analytic sample is drawn from all ever-married female respondents. I employ data from...

...Wei-Hsin Yu Abstract Research on female labor-force participation has not fully explained why economic development has different effects on married women’s employment continuity across societies. I use life-history data from nationally representative samples of women in Japan and Taiwan to examine...

.... This development has gone so far that the main question remaining is not whether young people will ever marry, but at what age they will marry. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1969 1969 Death Probability Single Life Synthetic Cohort Early Forty Nonwhite Male References...

...) ever in her reproductive life. This is termed instantaneous parity progression ratio (IPPR). f3; is the probability that a married woman of parity i (at the time of the survey) will live through the rest of her entire reproductive period in the mar- ried state without giving birth to any more children...

...Naveen Sunder Abstract This study examines whether Ugandan women who marry at younger ages fare differently on a wide range of later-life outcomes than women who marry at later ages. Using a nationally representative data set, I identify the plausibly causal impacts of women’s marriage age by using...

...Michael D. King Abstract College has been hailed as a “great equalizer” that can substantially reduce the influence of parents' socioeconomic status on their children's subsequent life chances. Do the equalizing effects of college extend beyond the well-studied economic outcomes to other dimensions...

... transitions in the NLSY sample. The traditional life-course pattern (end school, marry, and then have a first child) was followed by only 33.1% of the white and Hispanic (i.e., nonblack in the table) women and 10.5% of the black women. Among high school dropouts, the difference was even larger, with many...

...-cycle processes during the transition from adolescence to adulthood (such as college attendance and service in the military) seriously affect the age at which a man marries. INTRODUCTION First marriage is perhaps the most im- portant life-cycle transition made by American males in their movement from...

.... Applied to an initial population for which age structure, the fertility schedule, and expected trends in life expectancy and age-specific proportions of females married are known, TABRAP incorporates the following factors: age at acceptance, with acceptors drawn from currently married nonusers; age-method...

... who marry early can have a high likelihood of ending up poor later in life, yet can still be optimizing. However, even if the individual is optimizing, society might still be concerned about the effects of poverty on her children and the costs associated with transfer programs. An alternative...

... of the observed earnings gains are due to positive selection into migration. Among married women and single parents, post-migration earnings are either stagnant or in decline. Second, we illustrate how different types of migration are linked to the internal household economy. We find that quality-of-life...

... kept its specific function as the framework around the first years of life of the first-born in Denmark until 1975. This role had been taken over by consensual unions only to a small extent, for most new mothers were married, or they married after childbearing. Whether marriage contin- ued...

... it is of other work- ers, because professionals on the average marry and start families later. If so, family size is an important source of the over-all higher rates of professional migra- tion. MAJOR LIFE STYLE DETERMINANTS Totalfamily income.-Income is second only to age as an independent source of 14 See...