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| Title: | Parental divorce and offspring marriage in Finland: later, but with whom? |
| Authors: | EROLA, Jani
HARKONEN, Juho
DRONKERS, Jaap |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | European University Institute |
| Series/Report no.: | EUI SPS
2008/04 |
| Abstract: | Despite the large literature on the long-term effects of parental divorce, few studies have analyzed the
effects of parental divorce on spouse selection behavior. We use register-based event-history data
from Finland to study the effects of parental divorce on spouse selection according to education with
conditional multinomial logistic regression (CMLR) models. The results show that Finnish children of
divorce postpone their marriages. They have a lower likelihood of marrying spouses with higher
secondary education or more, but given this constraint, they have a higher likelihood of marrying
people with higher levels of education than themselves. The results suggest that children of divorce
are less preferred spouse candidates, but nonetheless prefer marrying better educated spouses than
themselves. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/8727 |
| ISSN: | 1725-6755 |
| Appears in Collections: | SPS Working Papers
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