Does Re-Partnering Behavior Spread Among Former Spouses?

Unlabelled: This study focused on individuals' re-partnering behavior following a divorce and asked whether divorcees influence each other's new union formation. By exploiting the System of Social statistical Datasets (SSD) of Statistics Netherlands, I identified divorced dyads and examined interdependencies in their re-partnering behavior. Discrete-time event history models accounting for shared characteristics of divorcees that are likely to influence their divorce and re-partnering behavior simultaneously were estimated.

Sibling influence on family formation: A study of social interaction effects on fertility, marriage, and divorce.

This study examined social interaction effects on family formation and dissolution, asking whether fertility, marital, and divorce behavior spread in the sibling network. Using panel data from the German SOEP (1984 - 2016; N = 4,521 individuals), we estimated discrete-time event history models with random effects at the individual to examine whether siblings' transitions to parenthood, marriage, and divorce influence an individual's chance to have children, marry, and divorce. Results show that the hazard of becoming a parent increased in the short term after a sibling had a child.

Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of Social Interaction Effects.

Research has indicated that fertility spreads through social networks and attributed this phenomenon to social interaction effects. It remains unclear, however, whether the findings of previous studies reflect the direct influence of network partners or contextual and selection factors, such as shared environment and common background characteristics. The present study uses instrumental variables to improve the identification of social interaction effects on fertility.