The family is a key institution that transmits inequality, and racial and socioeconomic
inequalities in family life have grown markedly. We use data from the 1996 to 2008 panels of …

As households have become increasingly financialized, family scholars have considered the
consequences of assets, credit, and debt for family dynamics. Previous studies that focused …

This paper examines a topic of continuing interest for demographers and sociologists of the
family: which factors promote relationship stability among couples. Two competing theories …

This article delineates and assesses the evidence for four perspectives that have guided
previous research on the relationship between wives' economic resources and marital …

Recent years have seen great interest in the relationship between relative earnings and
marital outcomes. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I …

Numerous studies indicate that in the 1980s and 1990s many more Black American
marriages compared to White American marriages ended in divorce (Bramlett & Mosher …

Racial and ethnic differentials in marriage are large and may contribute to maintaining
inequalities. Previous research identifies economic factors, particularly low levels of …

Over the past 20 years we have made enormous strides towards understanding racial and
ethnic variation in marriage, nonmarital fertility, and family stability. Particularly strong …

In this paper, we use data from a new longitudinal survey—the Fragile Families and Child
Wellbeing Study—to examine union formation among unmarried parents. We find that …

We draw on three waves of the Fragile Families Study to examine family stability among a
recent birth cohort (1998–2000) of children. We find that children born to cohabiting versus …