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Living Alone for Black and White Men and Women over Four Decades, 1980–2019

Hyunjoon Park, Matthew Sheen, Paula Clark
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2025, 11 (2) 26-45; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.02
Hyunjoon Park
aKorea Foundation Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Matthew Sheen
bGraduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Paula Clark
cHas recently earned her undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, United States
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    Proportion of Nonmarried Men at Twenty-Five to Thirty-Four

    Source: Authors’ calculations based on the analytic sample drawn from U.S. Census 1980, 1990, 2000, and the ACS 2010 and 2019.

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    Proportion of Nonmarried Women at Twenty-Five to Thirty-Four

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    Living Alone Among Black Men

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    Living Alone Among White Men

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    Living Alone Among Black Women

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    Living Alone Among White Women

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    Life-Course Change in Living Alone, Men Born 1946 to 1955

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    Life-Course Change in Living Alone, Women Born 1946 to 1955

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: 11 (2)
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Hyunjoon Park, Matthew Sheen, Paula Clark
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Hyunjoon Park, Matthew Sheen, Paula Clark
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Jan 2025, 11 (2) 26-45; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.02
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    • CHANGING MARITAL STATUS AND LIVING ALONE
    • DATA AND METHODS
    • CHANGING DISTRIBUTIONS OF MARITAL STATUS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LIVING ALONE
    • RESULTS: LOGISTIC REGRESSION
    • LIFE-COURSE CHANGES IN LIVING ALONE OF THOSE BORN BETWEEN 1946 AND 1955
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