Race, military service, and marital timing: Evidence from the NLSY-79
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I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between military service and marital timing for white men and black men during the 1980s. I use information about active-duty and reserve-duty service as well as veteran status to implement strong controls for selectivity. I find that active-duty military service increases the probability of first marriage for both whites and blacks. In part, this relationship is due to positive selectivity into the military and, for whites, to greater income and economic stability. Above and beyond the effects of selectivity, income, and economic stability, the effect of active-duty military service is particularly strong for black men.
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Research on military enlistment indicates that it has positive effects on family formation and stability.
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Active duty military service promotes marriage over cohabitation, increases the likelihood of first marriage, and leads to greater stability of marriage, and all of these effects were greater for blacks than for whites.
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Military service has provided disadvantaged black men increased education, higher earnings and greater occupational mobility than their civilian peers.
“military service has provided disadvantaged black men increased education, higher earnings and greater occupational mobility than their civilian peers [37].”
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- Authors
- Teachman, J.
- Affiliations
- Western Washington University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Teachman, Jay
- Venue
- Demography
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2007-05-01
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 389-404
- ISSN
- 0070-3370 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-7790
- OpenAlex
- W2045739895
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 14.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Demography (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD042828)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Family Dynamics
- Keywords
- military service, first marriage, race, Black men, white men, veteran status, selectivity, income, economic stability
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Black or African American, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Marriage, Veterans, Multivariate Analysis, White People
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