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Working Paper

Age Differences Among Coresidential Partners

April 14, 2023

This poster uses the 2021 1yr ACS data to examine age gaps of coresidential partners.

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Working Paper

Marital and Fertility Histories’ Association With Financial Resources

April 13, 2023

Most women and men aged 45 and older ever married before they had child(ren).

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Working Paper

Geographic Variations in Black-White Interracial and Cohabiting Households and Change Over Time

April 13, 2023

This study focuses on interracial relationships between non-Hispanic Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites.

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Working Paper

The New Great Migration and Black Marriage Trends in the South

April 07, 2022

Using data from the ACS, this study examines whether the percentage of college-educated Black adults in southern MSAs is associated with marriage prevalence.

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Working Paper

His State or Her State? Married Couples' States of Birth and Current Residence: 1900-2018

May 06, 2021

This poster examines trends in the states of birth and current residence of married couples from 1900-2018.

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Working Paper

Union Formation and Dissolution: SIPP 2014

April 27, 2018

This study uses SIPP 2014 to examine union formation and union dissolution using a variety of sociodemographic variables for those who have a union transition.

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Working Paper

Economic Security and Marriage Rates for Young Adults

April 26, 2018

Examines the role of socioeconomic characteristics (e.g., labor force participation, wages, poverty, and housing) on the marriage rates of young adults.

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Working Paper

Family and Household Composition After the Great Recession

April 26, 2018

This poster examines the relationship between the 100 most populous metropolitan statistical areas’ economic well-being and family and household measures.

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Working Paper

Examining Change in Interracial/Interethnic Married-Couple Households

April 26, 2018

This poster examines geographic change in the prevalence of interracial and interethnic married-couple households from 2000 to 2012-2016.

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Working Paper

Interracial and Inter-ethnic Marriage and Self-Rated Health

April 02, 2018

Study explores the associations between partner race/ethnicity and health in the U.S. using the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

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Working Paper

Testing Alternative Relationship and Marital Status Questions 2013 ACS

June 18, 2014

Quantitatively tested revised relationship and marital status questions developed through focus groups and cognitive testing.

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Working Paper

Mapping Interracial/Interethnic Married-Couple Households

April 2013

This poster examines the geographic distribution of interracial and interethnic married couples in the United States.

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Working Paper

Marital Homogamy and Economic Vulnerability During the Great Recession

2012

Examines whether those employed/formerly employed in occupations that were hard‐hit by the recession were more likely to have employed partners after recession.

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Working Paper

Same-Sex Couples’ Consistency in Reports of Marital Status

May 2012

Limited research has examined how same-sex couples report their marital status.

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Working Paper

Historical Marriage Trends from 1890-2010

May 2012

This paper views the history of marriage by sex and race, describing trends among those never married at age 35 and age 45 and older.

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Employment

Evolving Labor Force Outcomes for Married Couples

March 2011

This paper seeks to study the changes in labor market outcomes among married couples based on their level of education relative to their spouse.

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Working Paper

Evaluation of the Marital Events Items on the ACS

May 2010

This paper is released to inform interested parties of ongoing research and to encourage discussion of work in progress.

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Working Paper

The Characteristics of Remarried Americans

April 2010

This paper is released to inform interested parties of ongoing research and to encourage discussion of work in progress.

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Working Paper

Children's Coresidence with Half Siblings

March 31, 2010

A substantial proportion of children will live with half siblings during their childhood, and tend to fare worse on some measures of child well being.

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Working Paper

Working Beyond Retirement-Age

2008

This presentation focuses on why people might be working beyond retirement-age.

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Working Paper

U.S. Hispanic Population: 2006

August 2007

This presentation includes graphs for data collected around the Hispanic population.

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Working Paper

Evaluation Report Covering Marital History

January 03, 2007

Results of the proposed addition of marital history as tested in the 2006 American Community Survey Content Test.

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Working Paper

Marital Status in the 2004 American Community Survey

December 2006

Highlights data on the marital status of the population from the 2004 American Community Survey.

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Working Paper

Remarriage in the United States

August 2006

This poster looks at remarriage in the United States over the last half of the 20th century.

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Working Paper

What Has Happened to Median Age at First Marriage Data?

August 14, 2004

Examination of the potential of ACS and CPS to collect median age at first marriage estimates previously provided by National Center for Health Statistics.

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Working Paper

Adoptive Single Parents and Their Children: 2000

October 01, 2003

This report presents information on the characteristics of the 2.1 million adopted children and 4.4 million stepchildren of householders from the 2000 Census.

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Working Paper

What about the Children?

May 03, 2003

Data obtained from the Supplementary Survey 2001 contain valuable information about the household and family experiences of children.

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Working Paper

Interracial Unmarried Households vs Interracial Married Households

2003

This Interracial Unmarried-Partner Households working paper is on Families and Living Arrangements.

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Working Paper

Intermarriage: Profiles of Common interracial Combinations

October 2000

Rates of racial intermarriage have incresed in the United States, especially since legal barriers were removed in 1967.

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Working Paper

Interracial Marriage: Social Connection, Marital Conflict and Divorce

August 2000

Using both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this paper examines the relative stability of interracial and same race marriages.

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Working Paper

Interracial Marriage and Marital Instability

March 2000

This paper uses the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth to consider whether interracial first marriages are less stable than endogamous marriages.

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Working Paper

Who are the Poor Elderly? Report Using Alternative Poverty Measures

February 2000

This paper reviews the recent literature on poverty measurement among the elderly by bringing together issues that bear upon measures of resources and needs.

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Working Paper

How Does POSSLQ Measure Up? Historical Estimates of Cohabitation

May 1999

In this paper, we provide an overview of the indirect and direct methods used to measure cohabitation prevalence.

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Working Paper

Racial-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Cohabitation and Marriage

May 1999

Explores the relationship between earnings and cohabitation as well as other marital statuses across racial-ethnic groups for men and women.

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Working Paper

Edit Effects of Marital Status on Same Gender Couples

April 1999

Assesses current Census Bureau edit procedures for marital status and household relationship among same gender couples.

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Working Paper

Application of Experimental Poverty Measures to the Aged

1999

This article examines poverty among persons aged 65 or older under experimental measures, which are based on a 1995 report released by the NAC.

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