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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2015 Mar 24;77(4):982–995. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12195

Table 5.

Hypothesis 2: Cox Regression of Divorce Hazard on Insurance Status and Access to Employment-based Option

Model 2. Cox Regression of Divorce Hazard on Insurance Status and Access to
Employment-based Option (hazards in odds ratios)
Two-way interaction between insurance status and access to employment-based option
  Insurance Status Access to Employment-based Option
  Insured under own name Yes (reference)
  Insured under own name No 0.59*
  Insured under someone else's plan Yes 0.43*** a
  Insured under someone else's plan No 0.18*** b
  Gov't Insurance (Medicare, Medicaid) Yes 1.03
  Gov't Insurance (Medicare, Medicaid) No 0.37***
  Uninsured Yes 1.03
  Uninsured No 0.39***
Logged family monthly income 0.41***
Test of Hypothesis 2: Not having an employment-based source of health insurance coverage
outside the marriage further lowers the divorce risk of people enrolled in their spouses’
plans.
Key Coefficients for Hypothesis Test
a Insured under someone else's plan & has employment-based option 0.43***
b Insured under someone else's plan & has no employment-based option 0.18***

Ratio of b to a 0.41***

Note: Model includes age, age-squared, race, education, children, higher-order marriage, and marriage duration as controls. Coefficients are not shown. N=17,388 (men n=8,091; women n=9,297). Values are weighted to represent the US population.

Note: P-values of one-sided t-tests are corrected adjusted for False Discovery Rate (Benjamini and Hochberg 1995).

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .005.