Table 5.

Estimates from models for marriage

Variable	Single process		Multi process
	Coeff.	O.R.	Coeff.	O.R.
Migration
Moved 1 year before marriage	.11 (.05) *	1.12	.04 (.03) ns	1.05
Total number of migration	.02 (.02) ns	1.02	.00 (.01) ns	1.00
Duration
Duration to marriage	.18 (.02) ***	1.20	.07 (.01) ***	1.07
Squared duration to marriage	−.01 (.00) ***	.99	−.01 (.00) ***	.99
Cubical duration to marriage	.00 (.00) ***	1.00	.00 (.00) ***	1.00
Individual characteristics
Female	.29 (.04) ***	1.34	.12 (.02) ***	1.12
Black	−.83 (.04) ***	.43	−.36 (.02) ***	.70
Hispanic	−.16 (.05) **	.85	−.08 (.02) ***	.93
High school or equivalent	.34 (.04) ***	1.40	.16 (.02) ***	1.17
College or more	.26 (.04) ***	1.30	.12 (.02) ***	1.13
Employed part-time	.44 (.05) ***	1.55	.21 (.02) ***	1.23
Employed full-time	.79 (.05) ***	2.21	.40 (.02) ***	1.49
Living in metro areas	−.11 (.04) *	.90	−.05 (.02) **	.95
Giving a birth	.16 (.07) *	1.17	.06 (.03)	1.06
Total number of children	−.01 (.02) ns	.99	.01 (.01) *	1.01
Household characteristics
R lived in an intact family until age 18	−.06 (.03) †	.94	−.03 (.01) *	.97
Mom’s education	−.02 (.01) ***	.98	−.01 (.00) ***	.99
County characteristics
Sex ratio (%)	.02 (.01) †	1.02	.01 (.00) ns	1.01
Population with a college degree/higher (%)	−.01 (.00) **	.99	−.01 (.00) **	.99
Unemployment rates (%)	−.00 (.01) ns	1.00	.00 (.00) ns	1.00
Poverty rates (%)	.01 (.00) *	1.01	.00 (.00) *	1.00
Crime rates (%)	−.01 (.00) *	.99	−.00 (.00) *	1.00
Intercept	−4.05 (.49) ***	.02	−1.99 (.20) ***	.14
Log likelihood	−23270.2		−46092.4
Wald Chi2 (22)	1396.4		4303.4
Person-years	87,931

Notes: Numbers in parentheses are standard errors.

^ns= not significant,

^†p≤. 10,

^*p≤.05,

^**p≤.01,

^***p≤.001