Publications [#257079] of S. Philip Morgan

Papers Published

1. with Zeng, Y; Morgan, SP; Wang, Z; Gu, D; Yang, C, A Multistate Life Table Analysis of Union Regimes in the United States: Trends and Racial Differentials, 1970-2002., Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 31 no. 2 (April, 2012), pp. 207-234, ISSN 0167-5923 [doi]
   (last updated on 2024/01/01)

   Abstract:
   We estimate trends and racial differentials in marriage, cohabitation, union formation and dissolution (union regimes) for the period 1970-2002 in the United States. These estimates are based on an innovative application of multistate life table analysis to pooled survey data. Our analysis demonstrates (1) a dramatic increase in the lifetime proportions of transitions from never-married, divorced or widowed to cohabiting; (2) a substantial decrease in the stability of cohabiting unions; (3) a dramatic increase in mean ages at cohabiting after divorce and widowhood; (4) a substantial decrease in direct transition from never-married to married; (5) a significant decrease in the overall lifetime proportion of ever marrying and re-marrying in the 1970s to 1980s but a relatively stable pattern in the 1990s to 2000-2002; and (6) a substantial decrease in the lifetime proportion of transition from cohabiting to marriage. We also present, for the first time, comparable evidence on differentials in union regimes between four racial groups.