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In particular, the study focuses on differences in marriage and divorce patterns by educational attainment and by age at marriage. This work is descriptive and does not attempt to explain causation or why marriage patterns differ across groups.About 85 percent of the NLSY79 cohort married by age 46, and among those who married, a sizeable fraction, almost 30 percent, married more than once. The bulk of marriages occurred by age 28, with relatively few marriages taking place at age 35 or older. Approximately 42 percent of marriages that took place between ages 15 and 46 ended in divorce by age 46. In the NLSY79, women in this cohort were more likely to marry and to

Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)-a survey of people bornbetween 1957 and 1964-to period-this article examines the fertility patterns of women up to age 46. In general, women in the NLSY79 cohort are from a younger generation than that considered in other studies. 2 The article focuses on differences in fertility patterns by race/ethnicity, educational attainment (measured at age 46), and labor market experience.The analysis is descriptive and does not attempt to explain why fertility patterns differ across women. For

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Using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997, this article examines how the skill level and task content of U.S. jobs vary among workers born during the 1957–1964 and 1980–1984 periods. This article presents data on how job attributes vary by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and educational attainment as well as by performance on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test and type of occupation. It also examines the relationship between job attributes and wages.