Megan Lemmon
Mira Whyman
Jay Teachman

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol20/10/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.10

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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.

Author's affiliation
Megan Lemmon
Western Washington University, United States of America
Mira Whyman
Western Washington University, United States of America
Jay Teachman
Western Washington University, United States of America

Keywords
active-duty military service, cohabitation, marriage, union transitions

Word count (Main text)
3298

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