Patterns of Premarital Cohabitation among Never-Married Women in the United States

1987 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koray Tanfer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Premarital Cohabitation ◽  
Never Married

scholarly journals An analysis of income differentials by marital status

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Madalozzo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Income Differentials ◽  
Marriage Premium ◽  
Unmarried Cohabitation ◽  
Marriage Penalty ◽  
The Difference

Unmarried cohabitation has become a more frequently observed phenomenon over the last three decades, and not only in the United States. The objective of this work is to examine income differentials between married women and those who remain single or cohabitate. The empirical literature shows that, while the marriage premium is verified in different studies for men, the result for women is not conclusive. The main innovation of my study is the existence of controls for selection. In this study, we have two sources of selectivity: into the labor force and into a marital status category. The switching regressions and the Oaxaca decomposition results demonstrate the existence of a significant penalty for marriage. Correcting for both types of selection, the difference in wages varies between 49% and 53%, when married women are compared with cohabiting ones, and favors non-married women. This result points to the existence of a marriage penalty.

Women’s Informal Market Work in Massachusetts, 1875–1920

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Nancy Folbre
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Informal Market ◽  
Provision Of Services

Married women’s entrance into the market economy proceeded at a slow but steady pace between 1890 and 1910. That, at least, is the impression given by conventional census measures of the percentage with “gainful occupations,” which practically doubled in both the United States as a whole and in the heavily industrialized state of Massachusetts (see Table 1). This impression is misleading on at least two counts. Declines in self-reporting and enumerator bias may have overstated the increase in married women with gainful occupations. More important, dwindling opportunities for informal market activities, such as industrial homework, provision of services to boarders, and participation in a family farm or enterprise, may have countervailed increases in formal market participation. In Massachusetts, at least, married women’s specialization in non-market domestic labor probably increased.

scholarly journals Sexual Abstinence in the United States: Cohort Trends in Abstaining from Sex While Never Married for U.S. Women Born 1938 to 1983

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 237802312090847
Author(s):  
Lawrence L. Wu ◽  
Steven P. Martin ◽  
Paula England ◽  
Nicholas D. E. Mark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Abstinence ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Never Married ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Family Growth ◽  
Using Data

In this data visualization, the authors document trends in abstaining from sex while never married for U.S. women born 1938–1939 to 1982–1983. Using data from the six most recent National Surveys of Family Growth, the authors’ estimates suggest that for women born in the late 1930s and early 1940s, 48 percent to 58 percent reported abstaining from sex while never married. Abstinence then declined rapidly among women born in the late 1940s through the early 1960s, leveling off at between 9 percent and 12 percent for more recent birth cohorts. Thus, for U.S. women born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s, roughly one in nine abstained from sex while never married.

Contraceptive Discontinuation among Married Women in the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Grady ◽  
Mark D. Hayward ◽  
Francesca A. Florey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Contraceptive Discontinuation

The Association between Marital Status and Psychological Well-being: Variation across Negative and Positive Dimensions

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 2179-2202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tze-Li Hsu ◽  
Anne E. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Never Married ◽  
Negative Dimension ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
Better Than

Marital status is associated with psychological well-being, with the married faring better than the formerly and never-married. However, this conclusion derives from research focusing more on negative than positive well-being. We examine the association between marital status and negative well-being, measured as depressive symptoms, and positive well-being, measured as autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, self-acceptance, and purpose in life. Using Wave 2 of Midlife in the United States (2004–2006; n = 1,711), we find that the continuously married fare better on the negative dimension than do the formerly married. The results for some measures of positive well-being also reveal an advantage for the continuously married, compared with the formerly and the never-married. However, results for other positive measures indicate that the unmarried, and the remarried, fare better—not worse—than the continuously married. Further, some results suggest greater benefits for remarried or never-married women than men.

Status Implications of the Employment of Married Women in the United States

1961 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln H. Day
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women

Contraceptive Failure and Continuation among Married Women in the United States, 1970-75

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Grady ◽  
Marilyn B. Hirsch ◽  
Nelma Keen ◽  
Barbara Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Contraceptive Failure

Contraceptive switching among currently married women in the United States

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (S11) ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Grady ◽  
Mark D. Hayward ◽  
John O. G. Billy ◽  
Francesca A. Florey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Contraceptive Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Unprotected Intercourse ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
The Us

SummaryThis study examines contraceptive method switching among married women in the US. It enquires first into the effect of method type and women's socioeconomic characteristics on the risk of switching to each of six methods, including no method, and secondly into the previous methods used by women who adopt specific contraceptive means. The results indicate a great deal of circulation among all method types and of movement to unprotected intercourse. The adoption of sterilization is greatest among women not previously using any contraceptive method.

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