Trends in Marital Stability

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Source: Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Recent reports about the stability of marriages appear to yield conflicting conclusions. We reconcile these estimates, showing that data from several sources uniformly point to increasing marital stability among those married since the mid-late 1970s.



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