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The influence of individual and historical time on marital dissolution

Author(s) -

Arland Thornton,

Willard L. Rodgers

Publication year - 1987

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061505

Subject(s) - demography , marital status , cohort , population , duration (music) , national survey of family growth , fertility , developed country , period (music) , psychology , research methodology , demographic economics , family planning , sociology , economics , statistics , mathematics , art , physics , literature , acoustics

This paper examines the influence of individual development and historical change on marital dissolution. Data from the vital statistics system of the United States and from the June 1980Current Population Survey are used to examine the experience of marriage cohorts from 1905 through 1975 and the periods from 1922 through 1979. The historical patterns can best be explained as effects of period rather than of birth or marriage cohort, and the individual patterns can be explained best as effects of age and age at marriage rather than of marital duration.

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