Timing Effects on Divorce: 20th Century Experience in the United States

Period divorce measures can misrepresent the underlying behavior of birth cohorts as changes in cohort timing produce changes in period probabilities of divorce. Building on methods used to adjust period fertility and marriage measures, we adjust U.S. period divorce rates for timing effects, calcula...

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Published in:Journal of marriage and family 2006-08, Vol.68 (3), p.749-758
Main Authors: Schoen, Robert, Canudas-Romo, Vladimir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Age
Age groups
American studies
Birth
Cultural values
Demography
Divorce
divorce probability
Divorce rates
divorce timing
divorce trends
Family studies
Fertility
Human relations
Life tables
Longitudinal studies
Marital status
Marriage
Men
Millennium
Of General Interest
Probability
Regression analysis
Remarriage
Risk
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Social conditions & trends
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Time
Trends
U.S.A
United States
Vital statistics
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