Marriage Advantages in Perinatal Health
Evidence of Marriage Selection or Marriage Protection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2286711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J B Kane (0000-0002-5833-4797, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 212-229 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jomf.12257 |
| PMID | 26778858 |
| OpenAlex | W2111501195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 82 |
Marriage is a social tie associated with health advantages for adults and their children, as lower rates of preterm birth and low birth weight are observed among married women. In this study the author tested 2 competing hypotheses explaining this marriage advantage-marriage protection versus marriage selection-using a sample of recent births to single, cohabiting, and married women from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2006-2010. Propensity score matching and fixed effects regression results demonstrated support for marriage selection, as a rich set of early life selection factors account for all of the cohabiting-married disparity and part of the single-married disparity. Subsequent analyses demonstrated that prenatal smoking mediates the adjusted single-married disparity in birth weight, lending some support for the marriage protection perspective. The study's findings sharpen our understanding of why and how marriage matters for child well-being and provide insight into pre-conception and prenatal factors describing intergenerational transmissions of inequality via birth weight
Biology · Cohabitation · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Low birth weight · Marriage market · Matching (statistics · Panel data · Pregnancy · Propensity score matching · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 1.18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |