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Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2011 May;116(6):1982–2018. doi: 10.1086/658173

Table 4.

Odds Ratios from Latent 3-Class Model Predicting Whether Married Couple Stayed Together, Divorced with Wife Wanting Divorce More, or Divorced with Husband Wanting Divorce More

	Divorce that Wife Wanted More Relative to Stayed Together¹			Divorce that Husband Wanted More Relative to Stayed Together¹			Wald Test that Coefficient is Significantly Different for Divorce that Wives v. Husbands Wanted
	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3	M1	M2	M3
# Months Wife Employed previous 2 years, lagged 1 year	1.010	1.009	1.005	1.010	1.007	1.007	−0.017	−0.210	0.268
# Months Husband Employed previous 2 years, lagged 1 year	0.976^*	0.979^*	0.978^*	0.964^*	0.966^*	0.962^*	−1.219	−1.316	−1.651
Wife’s Better Off Divorced Scale		1.626^*	1.349^*		1.212^*	0.946		−2.988^*	−1.677
Husband’s Better Off Divorced Scale		1.155^*	0.999		1.492^*	1.093		2.560^*	0.459
Wife’s Better Off Divorced ^*
Employed (interaction effect)			1.012^*			1.015			0.372
Husband’s Better Off Divorced ^*
Employed (interaction effect)			1.008			1.018^*			1.006
Wife’s Education (< high school = reference)
High School Graduate	0.786	0.839	0.839	1.039	0.934	0.939	0.775	0.296	0.313
Some College	0.817	0.899	0.904	0.918	0.862	0.901	0.306	−0.115	−0.008
College Degree	0.735	0.798	0.807	1.230	1.130	1.170	1.250	0.861	0.917
Husband’s Education (< high school = reference)
High School Graduate	1.175	1.239	1.212	1.112	1.123	1.117	−0.159	−0.282	−0.234
Some College	1.065	1.117	1.088	1.035	1.027	1.030	−0.079	−0.233	−0.152
College Degree	0.914	1.019	0.987	0.921	0.976	0.992	0.018	−0.106	0.011
Wife 3 or more Years Older than Husband (0,1)	0.950	0.875	0.882	2.106^*	1.939^*	2.012^*	1.876	1.835	1.898
Wife’s Age at Marriage in Years	0.921^*	0.921^*	0.919^*	0.984	0.982	0.976	2.432^*	2.378^*	2.251^*
Marriage Duration in century months	0.993^*	0.993^*	0.993^*	0.996^*	0.996^*	0.996^*	2.365^*	2.257^*	2.099^*
Children present that are not husband’s (0,1)	0.705	0.717	0.697	1.560	1.738^*	1.685^*	2.097^*	2.330^*	2.343^*
Children present that are not wife’s (0,1)	0.934	0.976	0.948	0.853	0.802	0.787	−0.263	−0.573	−0.534
Premarital conception of first birth to couple (0,1)	1.105	1.003	1.000	0.875	0.850	0.868	−0.746	−0.518	−0.441
Either wife or husband Black (0,1)	1.553^*	1.078	1.064	0.782	0.557	0.534^*	−2.049^*	−1.848	−1.947
Husband from disrupted household (0,1)	1.123	1.158	1.131	1.273	1.239	1.215	0.526	0.286	0.311
Wife from disrupted household (0,1)	1.305^*	1.250	1.235	1.087	1.085	1.101	−0.802	−0.608	−0.501
Wife previously divorced (0,1)	1.696^*	1.797^*	1.844^*	0.893	0.908	0.919	−1.985^*	−2.217^*	−2.224^*
Husband previously divorced (0,1)	1.537^*	1.501^*	1.499^*	1.420	1.391	1.456	−0.300	−0.290	−0.111
Wife ever cohabited (0,1)	1.350^*	1.310	1.328	1.250	1.223	1.212	−0.245	−0.225	−0.298
Husband ever cohabited (0,1)	1.115	1.089	1.091	0.969	0.975	0.976	−0.437	−0.359	−0.359
Number and Age of Children
Number of children 0 to 1	0.843	0.856	0.854	0.847	0.822	0.815	0.020	−0.163	−0.182
Number of children 2 to 5	1.104	1.064	1.088	1.106	1.068	1.082	0.007	0.024	−0.034
Number of children 6 to 12	1.040	1.062	1.073	1.052	1.095	1.107	0.091	0.240	0.256
Number of children 13 to 18	0.950	0.934	0.935	1.008	0.998	1.009	0.423	0.490	0.559

Odds Ratios predicting divorce that wife or husband wanted more, relative to reference category of couple staying together.

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