Is Your Love in Vain? Another Look at Premarital Cohabitation and Divorce
实证检验婚前同居与离婚风险的关系，发现理论上同居应降低离婚风险，但许多研究得出相反结论，本文提供新证据探讨这一矛盾。
Abstract In this paper we provide an empirical investigation of the association between premarital cohabitation and subsequent risk of divorce. Theoretically couples who cohabit before marriage should have a lower subsequent risk of divorce since cohabitation enables you to gather information about the match quality, and only good matches evolve into marriage. However, a considerable number of papers have come to the complete opposite conclusion. The counter-intuitive result has been justified with self-selection of cohabitants as the main argument. In the present paper, we provide new evidence concerning the relationship between premarital cohabitation and divorce.