Active-duty military service, cohabiting unions, and the transition to marriage

Megan Lemmon, Mira Whyman and Jay Teachman
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Megan Lemmon: Western Washington University
Mira Whyman: Western Washington University
Jay Teachman: Western Washington University

Demographic Research, 2009, vol. 20, issue 10, 195-208

Abstract: A small but growing body of research has begun to identify the consequences of military service during the all-voluntary era. In this article, we examine the relationship between military service and the likelihood that cohabiting unions will be converted into marriages. Our paper extends previous research by making a distinction between the effects of active-duty verses reserve-duty service on the transition to marriage using data from the 1979-2004 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Our findings indicate that there is a positive relationship between active-duty service and cohabitors transitioning to marriage.

Keywords: cohabitation; marriage; active-duty military service; union transitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.10

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