Contemporaneous Versus Retrospective Reports of Cohabitation in the Fragile Families Survey

Julien O. Teitler · Nancy E. Reichman · Heather L. Koball

70 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Marriage and the Family

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Family Dynamics and Relationships Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Survey Methodology and Nonresponse

Abstract

We compare contemporaneous and retrospective reports of cohabitation among unmarried mothers in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey (N =2,524). We find that (a) many mothers revise their reports of whether they cohabited at the time of the birth of their child and (b) revisions in reports are systematically related to individuals’ characteristics and the quality and trajectory of parents’ relationships. These results have important implications for analyses of determinants and consequences of family structure using these data and, potentially, any retrospective data on relationships and family structure.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 70 citations exist upstream.

References

2001Fragile Families: sample and design 1989Relation of implicit theories to the construction of personal histories.1987Positive Affect, Cognitive Processes, and Social Behavior 2000Trends in cohabitation and implications for children s family contexts in the United States 1989Survey Errors and Survey Costs 2000Cohabitation in the United States: An Appraisal of Research Themes, Findings, and Implications 1996Cohabitation versus Marriage: A Comparison of Relationship Quality 2004Family Structure and Child Well‐Being: The Significance of Parental Cohabitation

Cited by

2008Together but Not “Together”: Trajectories of Relationship Suspension for Low‐Income Unmarried Parents*2021Reviewing the potential of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) for capturing second language exposure and use 2010The influence of union instability and union quality on children’s aggressive behavior 2014Marriage or Carriage? Trends in Union Context and Birth Type by Education 2013Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.