Table 3.

Logistic regression models of the odds of marriage: men 1960–2007

Variables	Age–period model		Age–period–cohort model (1)		Age–period–cohort model (2)
	e b	p value	e b	p value	e b	p value
Age	4.065	0.000	4.312	0.000	4.167	0.000
Age squared	0.976	0.000	0.975	0.000	0.975	0.000
Near Eastern origin	1.016	0.010	1.002	0.809	1.002	0.721
Born in Former USSR	1.094	0.000	1.135	0.000	1.128	0.000
Enrollment	0.783	0.000	0.807	0.000	0.801	0.000
Years of education
≤ 8	0.732	0.000	0.746	0.000	0.746	0.000
9–12	1.000	–	1.000	–	1.000	–
13 +	0.983	0.021	0.972	0.000	0.980	0.007
Army service	0.508	0.000	0.506	0.000	0.505	0.000
Period
1960–1964	1.000	–	1.000	–
1965–1969	1.208	0.000	0.975	0.299
1970–1974	1.158	0.000	0.816	0.000
1975–1979	0.934	0.000	0.611	0.000
1980–1984	0.745	0.000	0.480	0.000
1985–1989	0.626	0.000	0.430	0.000
1990–1994	0.536	0.000	0.426	0.000
1995–1999	0.487	0.000	0.471	0.000
2000–2004	0.444	0.000	0.546	0.000
2005–2007	0.387	0.000	0.576	0.000
GDP per capita					0.991	0.000
Unemployment					0.973	0.000
Inflation					0.918	0.000
Birth cohort
1926–1929			0.494	0.000	0.620	0.000
1930–1934			0.488	0.000	0.637	0.000
1935–1939			0.661	0.000	0.871	0.005
1940–1944			0.779	0.000	1.041	0.283
1945–1949			0.926	0.000	1.190	0.000
1950–1954			1.043	0.000	1.244	0.000
1955–1959			1.083	0.000	1.161	0.000
1960–1964			1.000	–	1.000	–
1965–1969			0.853	0.000	0.865	0.000
1970–1974			0.675	0.000	0.735	0.000
1975–1979			0.520	0.000	0.598	0.000
1980–1984			0.388	0.000	0.453	0.000
1985–1987			0.459	0.000	0.542	0.000
Constant	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000