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Development and Maintenance of Low-income Newlywed Marriages (ICPSR 35930)
Released/updated on: 2015-06-03
Geographic coverage: United States
This project examines marital distress and disruption within an ethnically diverse sample of low-income couples. Marriage licenses are used to sample 513 black, white, and Hispanic first-married newlywed couples living in low-income neighborhoods. Assessments include self-reports of personal history, stress, and marital quality, census data on neighborhood characteristics, videotaped observations of marital interactions, and interviewer ratings of the home environment. Couples are assessed in their homes and via telephone interviews 4 times over the first three years of marriage.
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Sources of Change and Stability in Low-income Black Marriages (ICPSR 35967)
Released/updated on: 2015-06-17
Geographic coverage: United States
This project samples 250 first-married Black newlywed couples living in low-income neighborhoods. These data are combined with data from an ongoing study of low-income Hispanic newlyweds in order to identify the sources of differences in marital outcomes for these two similarly underprivileged groups.