Interrelated family-building behaviors: Cohabitation, marriage, and nonmarital conception
Interrelated family-building behaviors: Cohabitation, marriage, and nonmarital conception
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DOI：
10.2307/2648089
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发表时间：
1999-11-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Waite, LJ
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作者：
Brien, MJ;Lillard, LA;Waite, LJ
来自1972年全国高中班级纵向研究的数据被用来估计进入婚姻，进入同居和非婚怀孕的一系列模型。我们的模型通过考虑由于可能影响所有这些结果的不可测量因素和过程中不可测量因素的相关性而导致的个体异质性，明确地解释了一种结果作为另一种结果的预测因子的内生性。我们发现这些异质性成分在结果中具有强烈的正相关。可能同居、结婚或未婚怀孕的女性也更有可能做其他每一件事。尽管黑人和白人女性在这些行为的可能性上有所不同，但这些行为的相互关系在不同群体中是非常相似的。
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 are used to estimate a series of models of entry into marriage, entry into cohabitation, and nonmarital pregnancy. Our models account explicitly for the endogeneity of one outcome as a predictor of another by taking into account both heterogeneity across individuals due to unmeasured factors that may affect all these outcomes and the correlation in the unmeasured factors across processes. We find that these heterogeneity components ave strongly and positively related across the outcomes. Women who are move likely to cohabit, marry, or become pregnant while unmarried are also more likely to do each of the others. Although black and white women differ in the likelihood of these behaviors, the interrelations of the behaviors are quite similar across groups.