TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lemmon, Megan
A1  - Whyman, Mira
A1  - Teachman, Jay
T1  - Active-duty military service, cohabiting unions, and the transition to marriage
Y1  - 2009/02/24
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 195
EP  - 208
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.10
VL  - 20
IS  - 10
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol20/10/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol20/10/20-10.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol20/10/20-10.pdf
N2  - 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.

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