Assessment of Survey Data for the Analysis of Marriage and Divorce at the National, State, and Local Levels

Ratcliffe, Caroline; Acs, Gregory; Dore, Timothy; Moskowitz, David

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“…Those at risk of divorce include those who divorced or were widowed in the past 12 months and those who remained married or separated at the time of the interview. A recent report documents the superiority of the ACS over other data sources (e.g., the National Survey of Family Growth and the Survey of Income and Program Participation) for estimating the divorce rate (Ratcliffe, Acs, Dore, & Moskowitz, 2008).…”

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The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010

Brown

Lin

2012

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010

Brown

Lin

2012

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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“…Those at risk of a first marriage included individuals who either remained never‐married or married for the first time during the past 12 months. The ACS is the best data source for estimating the first marriage rate (Ratcliffe et al, 2008).…”

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The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.

Brown

Lin

Mellencamp

2022

J of Marriage and Family

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This study documented change in the midlife first marriage rate for U.S. adults aged 40-59 between 1990 and 2019 and assessed the sociodemographic correlates of midlife first marriage formation for today's women and men. Background: Median ages at first marriage are at record highs for women and men, signaling that marriage may be increasingly occurring at older ages. However, first marriage formation among midlife adults remains largely overlooked. Method: Data from the 1990 U.S. Vital Statistics and the 2010 and 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) were used to estimate the change in women's and men's first marriage rates across age groups, with a focus on how the rate has changed for midlife adults. Average marginal effects (AMEs) were derived from logistic regression analyses that drew on the 2019 ACS to examine associations between sociodemographic factors and midlife first marriage formation for women and men. Results: Since 1990, the midlife first marriage rate has increased by 75% for women and 45% for men. The shares of women and men entering a first marriage who were aged 40-59 quadrupled between 1990 and 2019 (rising from 2% to 9% among women and from 3% to 12% among men). Some of the well-established predictors of first marriage in young adulthood operated uniquely for first marriage formation in midlife. Conclusion: Future research on first marriage formation should incorporate midlife adults.

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“…Going forward, since 2008, the American Community Survey (ACS) collects retrospective information on marriage and divorce that can be used to calculate divorce rates, conditional on age, education, gender, and the presence of children. In addition, the quality of information from ACS with about 3 million addresses per year is considered superior to other available sources of data on marital transitions (Ratcliffe et al., ). We use the 2010 ACS to construct the 2010 divorce rates in the same manner as outlined in Subsection 3.6 for the 2001 base‐case divorce rates.…”

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Housing Decision With Divorce Risk

Fischer

Khorunzhina

2019

Int Economic Review

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We build a life‐cycle model of housing decisions under divorce risk that predicts that the recent increase in divorce rates leads to reduced homeownership rates. The risk of a divorce triggers a precautionary‐savings motive. However, this motive is weaker when individuals can invest in owner‐occupied homes because homeowners' higher savings partially substitute for precautionary savings. When young, the larger asset accumulation due to divorce‐risk‐induced precautionary savings enables households to buy homes earlier, whereas the presence of transaction costs leads to reduced homeownership for middle‐aged and older households when divorce risk goes up.

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Assessment of Survey Data for the Analysis of Marriage and Divorce at the National, State, and Local Levels

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010

The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010

The rising midlife first marriage rate in the U.S.

Housing Decision With Divorce Risk

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