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Sole physical custody and mother's repartnering after divorce
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Abstract
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| Research consistently finds that divorced mothers with full-time residential children exhibit lower repartnering rates than mothers whose children also stay with their ex-partners. Yet the selectivity of mothers who take up sole physical custody could have biased the estimations. Using data from the Divorce-in-Flanders study (N=959), the authors model mothers' heterogeneity in the uptaking of sole physical custody as a factor influencing repartnering. They find that failure to account for the endogeneity of sole physical custody leads to a large underestimation of its effect on repartnering. Accounting for its endogeneity, sole physical custody reduced the mother's repartnering rate by 63%, whereas this was just 33% according to the naive estimate. The results suggest that mothers with full-time residential children are disproportionally selected among those who have better chances of repartnering but that sole physical custody itself acts as an important impediment to stepfamily formation following divorce. |
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Language
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English
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Journal of marriage and the family. - Minneapolis, Minn
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Publication
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Minneapolis, Minn
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2017
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0022-2445
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DOI
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10.1111/JOMF.12389
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79
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(2017)
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000404446600018
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