Cohabitation History, Marriage, and Wealth Accumulation

Vespa, Jonathan; Painter, Matthew A.

doi:10.1007/s13524-011-0043-2

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“…At any given time point, marriage was strongly associated with neighborhood characteristics. Marriage was associated with lower neighborhood poverty, consistent with resource consolidation and stability that occur with marriage (Vespa and Painter 2011). We also found that marriage was associated with lower neighborhood density.…”

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Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

et al. 2015

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Marriage and parenthood are associated with weight gain and residential mobility. Little is known about how obesity-relevant environmental contexts differ according to family structure. We estimated trajectories of neighborhood poverty, population density, and density of fast food restaurants, supermarkets, and commercial and public physical activity facilities for adults from a biracial cohort (CARDIA, n=4,174, aged 25–50) over 13 years (1992–93 through 2005–06) using latent growth curve analysis. We estimated associations of marriage, parenthood, and race with the observed neighborhood trajectories. Married participants tended to live in neighborhoods with lower poverty, population density, and availability of all types of food and physical activity amenities. Parenthood was similarly but less consistently related to neighborhood characteristics. Marriage and parenthood were more strongly related to neighborhood trajectories in whites (versus blacks), who, in prior studies, exhibit weaker associations between neighborhood characteristics and health. Greater understanding of how interactive family and neighborhood environments contribute to healthy living is needed.

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Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

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“…We discovered that the trend for the association between marriage and screening was stable over time, and that the gap between married and unmarried did not grow over time. Despite social and economic changes over that period such as economic fluctuations and changing gender roles [10–12], marriage appears to be a social status that consistently confers health-promoting behavioral advantages, which may partly explain why previous literature has consistently found that married persons have better health than unmarried persons [1–3]. Future research using data with a longer study period may be better able to capture variations in this association; perhaps the trend between marriage and screening was larger in prior generations and shrank over time, or perhaps in the coming years the gap will shrink.…”

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“…Another view argues that marriage confers specific benefits for individuals such as social support, pooled assets, access to spousal health insurance, and shared household labor [5–9]. However, there is some evidence to suggest that the relationship between marriage and health changes over time concurrent with changes in social norms about marriage, gender roles, or economic climate [10–12]. …”

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The effect of marriage on utilization of colorectal endoscopy exam in the United States

Stimpson

Wilson

Watanabe‐Galloway

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Cancer Epidemiology

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Purpose This study examines the association between marriage and colorectal endoscopy exam, and whether this association varies by gender and financial benefits of marriage including improved access to health insurance and pooled family income. Methods Representative survey data of the non-institutionalized United States population were used from the 2000, 2005, and 2008 National Health Interview Survey. Analyses targeted persons 50–85 years of age without a personal history of cancer and with complete information on all study variables (n = 21,760). Multivariate logistic regression was used to model marital status differences in the probability of undergoing a colorectal endoscopy exam with interaction effects used to model variation over time by gender, health insurance, and poverty level. Results Married persons were more likely than unmarried persons to report ever having undergone a colorectal endoscopy exam (odds ratio [OR], 1.21; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.12–1.29), and the difference between married and unmarried persons in the probability of undergoing a colorectal endoscopy exam remained stable over time. Married persons were more likely than unmarried persons to report having undergone a colorectal endoscopy exam within the past 10 years (OR, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.15–1.95). For each survey year, married men were significantly more likely than women and unmarried men to report having undergone a colorectal endoscopy exam. For example, in 2008, 56% of married men reported having undergone a colorectal endoscopy exam, compared to 49% of unmarried men, 52% of married women, and 50% of unmarried women. Among persons with health insurance, married persons were significantly more likely than unmarried persons to have undergone a colorectal endoscopy exam. Among persons who were poor, there was no difference by marital status in the likelihood of having undergone a colorectal endoscopy exam. However, among persons who were not poor, married persons were more likely than unmarried persons to have undergone a colorectal endoscopy exam. Conclusion Given that colorectal endoscopy exams are a potentially life-saving procedure, persistently higher uptake of colorectal endoscopy for married persons over time may be an important health promoting benefit of marriage. Therefore, clinicians and policy makers should focus on improving the use of cancer prevention services among unmarried persons.

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“…Debt, however, is distinct from income or wealth in that it must be repaid (Schneider, 2011; Vespa, 2011). Taking on debt for consumption, even consumption seen as a rational investment, thus puts future consumption at risk.…”

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Can’t afford a baby? Debt and young Americans

Nau

Dwyer

Hodson

2015

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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This article explores the role of personal debt in the transition to parenthood. We analyze data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-1997 cohort and find that for the generation coming of age in the 2000s, student loans delay fertility for women, particularly at very high levels of debt. Home mortgages and credit card debt, in contrast, appear to be precursors to parenthood. These results indicate that different forms of debt have different implications for early adulthood transitions: whereas consumer loans or home mortgages immediately increase access to consumption goods, there is often a significant delay between the accrual and realization of benefits for student loans. The double-edged nature of debt as both barrier and facilitator to life transitions highlights the importance of looking at debt both as a monetary issue and also as a carrier of social meanings.

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Cohabitation History, Marriage, and Wealth Accumulation

Cited by 71 publications

References 57 publications

Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study

The effect of marriage on utilization of colorectal endoscopy exam in the United States

Can’t afford a baby? Debt and young Americans

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