Effects of Childhood Family Structure on the Transition to Marriage

Shedding “light” on marriage: The influence of skin shade on marriage for black females

“…For more information on how age is constructed, please see our variable definitions in Appendix Table A.1. 34 We include variables in X to account for who raised the respondent because Kobrin and Waite (1984) provide evidence, using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Education and Labor Market Experiences, that persons not in dual parent households during their teenage years are less likely to marry later in life. 35 In addition, Appendix Table A.4 presents Eq.…”

The influence of parental resources on the timing of the transition to marriage

“…These factors include the mother's age at marriage, whether or not she had a premarital pregnancy, and her marital experience (Kobrin and Waite, 1984;McLanahan and Bumpass, 1988;Thornton, 1991). Because a good deal has already been written about the effects of these factors on marriage timing, we do not discuss their effects in the text, but we do include measures of these factors as controls in our models of marital timing.…”

“…Several scholars studying the marriage process have noted gender differences (Goldscheider and Goldscheider, 1987;Kobrin and Waite, 1984;Goldscheider and Waite, 1986;Marini, 1978). Because of this evidence, the influence of parental resources on the timing of children's marriage was modeled separately for males and females.…”

The Socioeconomic Determinants of the Age at First Marriage among Women in Hong Kong

“…Research in marriage and the family has a long tradition of analyzing the social and familial determinants of the age at first marriage among women, including variables such as race, region of residence, parents' educational attainment, living arrangement, and whether the marriages of the women's parents remain intact (Elder, 1972;Kobrin & Waite, 1984;Michael & Tuma, 1985;Otto, 1979;Waite & Spitze, 1981). Over the last decade or so, however, research focus has shifted from the social and familial determinants to the impact of educational and career attainment on the age at first marriage (Bloom & Bennett, 1990;Blossfeld & Huinink, 1991;Cherlin, 1992;Goldstein & Kenney, 2001;Oppenheimer, 1997;Oppenheimer & Lew, 1995).…”