scholarly journals Cross-friend effects on entry into marriage and parenthood: A multiprocess approach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Balbo ◽  
Nicola Barban ◽  
Melinda C. Mills
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contextual Effects ◽  
Event History ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
Independent Events ◽  
The Individual

This paper aims to investigate whether friends’ and peers’ behavior influences an individual’s entry into marriage and parenthood of young adults in the United States. After first studying entry into marriage and parenthood as two independent events, we then examine them as interrelated processes, thereby considering them as two joint outcomes of an individual’s unique, underlying family-formation strategy. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we engage in a series of discrete time event history models to test whether the larger the number of friends and peers who get married (or have a child), the sooner the individual gets married (or has a child). Results show strong cross-friend effects on entry into parenthood, whereas entry into marriage is only affected by more general contextual effects. Estimates of a multiprocess model show that cross-friend effects on entry into parenthood remain strongly significant even when we control for cross-process unobserved heterogeneity.

scholarly journals Parental divorce homogamy and its effect on separation from cohabitation and marriage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist ◽  
Anette Fasang ◽  
Marika Jalovaara ◽  
Emanuela Struffolino
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Event History ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Multiplicative Effect ◽  
Divorce Risk

Numerous studies have shown that parental divorce increases children’s divorce risk. Weextend this literature by assessing how parental divorce on both sides of a (potential) coupleaffects their partnering dynamics. Specifically, we explore 1) whether there is parental divorcehomogamy and whether the parental divorce of both partners adds to the dissolution of both 2)cohabiting and 3) married unions. Our analyses use event history models on high-qualityFinnish Census Panel data covering 28,021 cohabiting and marital partnerships between ages18 and 45. We found substantial parental divorce homogamy in that children who experiencedparental divorce are 13% more likely to cohabit with and 17% more likely to marry a fellowchild of divorce. Moreover, contrary to evidence from the United States and Norway, ourfindings for Finland support an additive, not a multiplicative, effect. Here, both partners’parental divorce increases their offspring’s dissolution risk by 20% for cohabitation and 70%for marriage compared to couples where neither of their parents are divorced. We conclude thatparental divorce on both sides of a couple affects family formation processes at multiple stages.In Finland, these effects are notably less than previously found in the United States. This islikely because cohabitation and separation are wide-spread and socially accepted in Finlandand an expansive welfare state buffers the socio-economic consequences of divorce.

scholarly journals Tobacco use transitions in the United States: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 251-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette R. Kaufman ◽  
Stephanie Land ◽  
Mark Parascandola ◽  
Erik Augustson ◽  
Cathy L. Backinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Longitudinal Study

scholarly journals Who Owns a Handgun? An Analysis of the Correlates of Handgun Ownership in Young Adulthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-571
Author(s):  
Mitchell Gresham ◽  
Stephen Demuth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Add Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
National Longitudinal Study

Previous research on firearms has not adequately addressed a fundamental question about handgun ownership: Why do some people own handguns while most in the United States do not? We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to examine adolescent and adult correlates of handgun ownership, including socialization, victimization and fear of crime, political ideology, and societal insecurities. We also investigate the differences between “typical” owners and “atypical” owners who own more handguns. We find that socialization, victimization, conservatism, and societal insecurity all independently increase the likelihood of handgun ownership, and atypical handgun owners are more likely to be conservative and to have experienced victimization than typical owners.

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