Invitation • 07.06.2024BiB Population Research Series

Aart Liefbroer is researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), Professor of Life Course Demography at the University Medical Centre Groningen and professor by special appointment of Demography of Young Adults at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests focus on demographic life-course processes, like leaving home, union formation and dissolution and fertility.

Abstract

A large literature has shown that people are selected into and out of marriage – and partner relationships more generally – based on their health condition, with the healthy being more likely to marry and less likely to divorce than the unhealthy. However, this literature mainly studies the short-term consequences of health. In this talk, I will present a study conducted in collaboration with Peter Ekamper and L.H. Lumey in which we examine the long-term selection into and out of marriage among Dutch men born in the 1940s. We use medical records compiled from conscripts for military service at the age of 18 and follow them via population registers until age 75. The study has two major strengths. First, a broad range of medical information, both on physical and mental health is included. Second, by observing conscripts until old age, we are able to examine whether adolescent health 'only' influences the timing of marriage and divorce or also their overall occurrence. We use so-called 'split population' or 'cure' models to examine these issues.

Location

The event will take place on the 3rd floor of the BiB in presence and online as a Webex conference.

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65189 Wiesbaden, Germany

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Background

In our BiB Population Research Series, we address current topics in population research and in related disciplines. Scientists from Germany and abroad present results from their research work in English.