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Mind the Gap: The Health Advantages that Accompany Parental Marriage Vary by Maternal Nativity

Sigle, W; Goisis, A; (2019) Mind the Gap: The Health Advantages that Accompany Parental Marriage Vary by Maternal Nativity. Population Studies , 73 (3) pp. 369-386. 10.1080/00324728.2019.1654613. Green open access

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Type: Article
Title: Mind the Gap: The Health Advantages that Accompany Parental Marriage Vary by Maternal Nativity
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2019.1654613
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2019.1654613
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Using data from the British Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), we examine whether and how the health benefits of having two biological parents in a continuous marital relationship vary by maternal nativity, taking into account differences by country origin. Making novel use of Classification and Regression Tree (CART) methods, we demonstrate that marriage is not a uniform marker of economic advantage and better health-related behaviors across four maternal nativity and ethnic groups. The findings, which indicate that the health-related advantages associated with marriage are not uniform across nativity and ethnic groups, have implications for future research on family gaps in well-being and the socioeconomic determinants of health.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10078011
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