The Role of Religion in Union Formation: An Economic Perspective

Lehrer, Evelyn L.

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“…Mainline Protestants and the unaffiliated are at the center of the distribution, with a probability of 0.08 -0.09 (Lehrer 2004a). The more recent analyses also show that although the behavior of Catholics has converged to the mainline Protestant pattern in most domains of family life, their behavior has remained distinctive in the area of entry into marriage: their probability of having entered first marriage by age 20 is only 0.05.…”

Section: The Timing Of Entry Into First Union and The Choice Of Whethmentioning

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“…Cohabitation has been found to be least likely for Mormons and most likely for individuals without a religious affiliation (Lehrer 2000(Lehrer , 2004a. Analyses of data from the 1995 NSFG show that for women with typical characteristics, the probability of having cohabited by age 20 is 0.12 for Mormons; for the unaffiliated, the probability is twice that amount (Lehrer 2004a).…”

Section: The Timing Of Entry Into First Union and The Choice Of Whethmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While some studies find that they stand out for their high rate of cohabitation (Lehrer 2000, Willis andMichael 1994), no significant effect could be discerned in an analysis of a more recent data set (Lehrer 2004a). For conservative Protestants, the effects described above appear to cancel out, as their prevalence of cohabitation is not significantly different from that of mainline Protestants (Lehrer 2000(Lehrer , 2004a.…”

Section: The Timing Of Entry Into First Union and The Choice Of Whethmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analyses of data from the 1995 NSFG show that for women with typical characteristics, the probability of having cohabited by age 20 is 0.12 for Mormons; for the unaffiliated, the probability is twice that amount (Lehrer 2004a). The low prevalence of cohabitation among Mormons is due in part to their conservative attitudes toward premarital sex, which imply high subjective costs associated with entering informal living arrangements (Sweet and Bumpass 1990).…”

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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States

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2004

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United StatesEvelyn L. Lehrer The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. ABSTRACT Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States *This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and demographic behavior of individuals and families in the United States, including the choice of marital partner, union formation and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on Gary Becker's contributions to the economics of the family, religious affiliation is seen to affect these outcomes because it has an impact on the costs and benefits of many interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle. In addition, for behaviors that pertain to married couple households, affiliation matters because it is a complementary trait within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes, partly because it accentuates differences by religious affiliation, partly because of the generally beneficial effects that religious involvement has on health and well-being. Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United StatesA large body of literature documents that religion has important effects on various aspects of the economic and demographic behavior of individuals and families in the United States, including the choice of marital partne...

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Section: The Timing Of Entry Into First Union and The Choice Of Whethmentioning

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Section: The Timing Of Entry Into First Union and The Choice Of Whethmentioning

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“…These two indicators are routinely available in many social surveys and generally prove to be relatively robust. For example, associations between self-assigned religious affiliation and various aspects of marital status have been demonstrated by Bahr and Chadwick (1985), Lehrer (2004), Dempsey andde Vaus (2004), de Graaf andKalmijn (2000) and Pearce and Thornton (2007). Associations between self-reported church attendance and various aspects of marital status have been demonstrated by Petrowsky (1976), DeMars and Leslie (1984), Bahr and Chadwick (1985), Thornton, Axinn, and Hill (1992), Stolzenberg, Blair-Loy, and Waite (1995), Chatters, Taylor, and Lincoln (1999), Berrington and Diamond (1999), Zimmerman and Easterlin (2000), Wilcox and Wolfinger (2007), and Maselko and Buka (2008).…”

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