Table 1.
Baseline Descriptives by Marital Trajectory
| Women Who Remain Married | Women Who Divorce | Diff.a | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marital Characteristics | |||
| First Marriage | 77.0% | 64.3% | *** |
| Years Married | 15.6 | 9.7 | *** |
| Employment | |||
| Status | |||
| Full-Time | 51.1% | 59.4% | *** |
| Part-Time | 17.0% | 15.2% | |
| Not Employed | 31.9% | 25.3% | *** |
| Job Tenure > 6 Months | |||
| Full-Time Workers | 89.9% | 85.6% | ** |
| Part-Time Workers | 83.6% | 76.2% | * |
| Earnings (2010$) | |||
| Full-Time Workers | $42,005 | $40,398 | |
| Part-Time Workers | $18,584 | $17,498 | |
| Self-Reported Health | |||
| Good, Very Good or Excellentb | 89.8% | 89.8% | |
| Disabled | 9.2% | 10.4% | |
| Demographics | |||
| Age | 42.1 | 37.8 | *** |
| Poor (<100%FPLc) | 8.2% | 12.7% | *** |
| Any Children | 50.3% | 60.9% | *** |
| Education | |||
| Less Than High School | 10.9% | 9.8% | |
| High School | 29.1% | 30.3% | |
| Some College | 32.2% | 39.0% | *** |
| College Graduate | 27.7% | 20.8% | *** |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||
| NH White | 75.2% | 76.3% | |
| NH Black | 7.5% | 9.0% | |
| Hispanic | 11.3% | 10.3% | |
| Other | 6.0% | 4.5% | ** |
| N (persons) | 54,541 | 1,442 |
Notes: Data reflect characteristics of sample members at baseline, at which point all women are married. Sample size reported reflects total sample, before dropping missing cases in each analysis. All variables presented have less than 10% missing, with the exception of self-reported health (14.4%) and length of marriage (12.6%); neither is used in multivariate models, except interaction models in Table 4.
a
Heteroskedasticity-robust t-tests are weighted and adjusted for the SIPP's clustered sampling design.
b
Measured at earliest available timepoint prior to divorce or censoring.
c
Federal Poverty Line.
*
p<.05;
**
p<.01;
***
p<.001 (two-tailed tests)