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American Journal of Sociology is likely to be substantial. For example, the trend in cohabitation among those already married could miss much of the increasing trend among the most recent cohorts. Dating, mating, and marriage should be studied using full cohorts, not just those who marry. Fourth, Whyte's causal inferences are frequently problematic. They arise in two forms. In some analyses independent variables are not necessarily temporally prior to dependent ones. Education of the wife is an independent variable in the equation predicting age at marriage, for instance. Clearly, marriage could causally affect school continuation. In addition, some dependent variables are events, such as age at first intercourse, age at first date, and age at first marriage. Whyte's failure to model exposure to the risk of these events has led to erroneous conclusions. To illustrate, Whyte claims that "dating popularity" increases age at marriage, but he measures dating popularity by combining three responses: number of different people the woman remembered dating, the number of partners the woman "went steady with," and the number of men she considered marrying. Note that each of these measures w

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Author

Julie Brines

Publisher

University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press (ISSN 0002-9602)

Published

1991

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences