Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

E. Lehrer, Yu Chen
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In their pioneering research, Becker, Landes and Michael (1977) found that beyond age 30 there is a positive relationship between women's age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a "poor-match" effect emerging as the biological clock begins to tick. In analyses of the 2006-2010 National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG), we find evidence of the existence of this effect: women who delay marriage disproportionately make unconventional matches, which are generally associated with high marital instability (N = 3,184). We also find, however, that their unions are very solid. We develop and test competing hypotheses that can account for these patterns. In addition, noting that women's delayed transition to first marriage has been accompanied by higher proportions of women entering marriage with 16 years of schooling or more, we examine changes across the last three NSFG cycles in the education - marital instability association.
第一次婚姻的延迟进入:贝克-兰德-迈克尔假说的进一步证据
Becker, Landes和Michael(1977)在他们的开创性研究中发现,30岁以上女性的初婚年龄与婚姻不稳定性之间存在正相关关系。他们将这一发现解释为生物钟开始滴答作响时出现的“不匹配”效应。在对2006-2010年全国家庭增长调查(NSFG)的分析中,我们发现了这种影响存在的证据:推迟结婚的女性不成比例地做出非常规的婚姻,这通常与婚姻的高度不稳定有关(N = 3,184)。然而,我们也发现,他们的联盟非常稳固。我们开发和测试可以解释这些模式的相互竞争的假设。此外,我们注意到女性推迟第一次婚姻的过渡伴随着更高比例的女性在16年或以上的教育背景下进入婚姻,我们研究了教育-婚姻不稳定关系在过去三个NSFG周期中的变化。
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