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Decline in Marriage Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.
Article in Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Fertility in a Pandemic: Evidence from California.Population and development review · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on marriage, divorce, birth, and death in Kerman province, the ninth most populous province of Iran.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Maintenance in relationships, satisfaction, jealousy, and violence in young couples: a network analysis.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Love under lockdown: How changes in time with partner impacted stress and relationship outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2023Article
- Marriage and divorce during a pandemic: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marital formation and dissolution in Mexico.Review of economics of the household · 2023Article
- Relationship Status-Based Health Disparities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Social currents · 2023Article
- Changes in marriage, divorce and births during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Systematic Review.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2022Article
- COVID-19, marriage, and divorce in Japan.Review of economics of the household · 2022Article
- Marriage and Divorce Decline during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Five States.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
In the social upheaval arising from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we do not yet know how union formation, particularly marriage, has been affected. Using administration records-marriage certificates and applications-gathered from settings representing a variety of COVID-19 experiences in the United States, the authors compare counts of recorded marriages in 2020 against those from the same period in 2019. There is a dramatic decrease in year-to-date cumulative marriages in 2020 compared with 2019 in each case. Similar patterns are observed for the Seattle metropolitan area when analyzing the cumulative number of marriage applications, a leading indicator of marriages in the near future. Year-to-date declines in marriage are unlikely to be due solely to closure of government agencies that administer marriage certification or reporting delays. Together, these findings suggest that marriage has declined during the COVID-19 outbreak and may continue to do so, at least in the short term.
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