Making Big Changes: The Impact of Moves on Marriage among U.S. Army Personnel

Abstract

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“…Hogan and Seifert (2010) find that marriage itself is more common for young active-duty military service members, compared with similar civilians, and that the odds of divorce are also greater after two years of service, compared with civilians. Carter and Wozniak (2018) show that relocations, such as permanent change of station moves, are strongly associated with increased marriage rates. Together, the research suggests that the decision to get married and stay married and the decision to serve and remain in service are intertwined.…”

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“…Furthermore, assignments "will not be influenced by the employment, school enrollment, volunteer activities, or health of a Service member's family member" (DoD 2015). Several papers have demonstrated that the timing and frequency of relocations is not subject to soldier preferences, including Lyle (2006), Lleras-Muney (2010), Skimmyhorn (2017), andWozniak (2018). Moves within a catchment area may be endogenous since they are unlikely to be driven by personnel management needs; we therefore exclude such moves from our analysis.…”