Relationship stability: evidence from labor and marriage markets
基于欧洲健康、老龄化与退休调查的老年人样本，研究发现劳动力市场和婚姻市场中的关系稳定性显著正相关，且不稳定性与较低信任度、尽责性以及较高外向性和神经质相关，童年父亲缺失会加剧后期不稳定性，并降低晚年福祉。
Abstract Based on a sample of elderly individuals from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, we investigate the relationship between job and marital stability over the life cycle. We argue that an unobserved, time‐varying social skill affects stability in both markets. Using a grouped fixed‐effects estimator, we show that unobserved relationship stability in both markets is significantly and positively associated. Instability in both markets is associated with lower levels of trust and conscientiousness, and higher levels of extraversion and neuroticism. The absence of the father during childhood perpetuates higher instability later in life. Higher instability is also costly as it is associated with lower levels of late‐life well‐being.