Age at marriage and marital instability
Subtitle: revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael hypothesis
By: by Evelyn L. Lehrer
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2166; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2166
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Marriage age; Divorce; Marriage
Description: "An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as unmarried women begin to hear their biological clock tick, they may settle for matches far from the optimal. Analyses based on cycles 5 and 6 of the National Surveys of Family Growth show that the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability is strongly negative up to the late twenties, with a flattening of the curve thereafter"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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