ABSTRACT Evidence suggests that disability negatively affects people’s propensity to find a partner. Persons with disabilities that eventually find a partner do so later in life compared to the average population. There is a lack of studies on the differences in partnership opportunities for persons with disabilities compared to those without disabilities in Sweden. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of disability on partnership formation and to assess whether partnership formation varies as a function of individual demographic and socio-economic factors. We use nationwide data available in the Swedish Initiative for Research on Microdata in Social and Medical Sciences (Umeå SIMSAM Lab). We follow persons born from 1973 to 1977 when they were from 16 to 37 years of age and analyze their data using logistic regression. Our findings indicate that regardless of whether a person started to receive a disability pension at an early age or later, it was associated with lower odds for partnership formation. For persons who started receiving disability pension from 16 to 20 years of age, chances for partnership formation reduced with increase in age of partnership. Individuals that started to receive disability pension later were more likely to form partnership prior to receiving disability pension. Partnership formation was less likely among persons born outside Sweden, in persons with mothers born outside Sweden, in individuals born by unmarried mothers and in persons, whose mothers had a high level of education. Partnership was high among women and among persons who had many maternal siblings. In conclusion, receiving disability pension was associated with reduced chances for partnership formation. Receiving disability pension might imply financial constraints that negatively influence partnership formation supporting Oppenheimer’s theory on the economic cost of marriage and the uncertainty hypothesis.

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1990年至2009年期间，残疾对瑞典结成伙伴关系的影响

摘要证据表明，残疾会对人们寻找伴侣的倾向产生负面影响。与平均人口相比，最终找到伴侣的残疾人在生活中要晚一些。在瑞典，与残疾人士相比，关于残疾人的合伙机会差异还缺乏研究。这项研究的目的是评估残疾对伙伴关系形成的影响，并评估伙伴关系形成是否随个人人口统计学和社会经济因素而变化。我们使用瑞典社会和医学微数据研究计划（UmeåSIMSAM Lab）中的全国性数据。我们追踪了1973年至1977年出生的16至37岁年龄段的人，并使用逻辑回归分析其数据。我们的研究结果表明，无论一个人是从早年还是晚年开始领取残疾抚恤金，都与合伙关系形成的可能性降低有关。对于从16岁至20岁开始领取残疾抚恤金的人，随着合伙年龄的增加，建立合伙的机会减少。后来开始领取伤残抚恤金的个人更有可能在领取伤残抚恤金之前建立合伙关系。在瑞典境外出生的人，在瑞典境外出生的母亲，未婚母亲所生的人以及母亲的文化程度较高的人之间，建立伙伴关系的可能性较小。妇女和有许多母亲兄弟姐妹的人之间的伙伴关系很高。结论，领取伤残抚恤金与减少合伙关系的机会有关。领取残疾抚恤金可能意味着财务上的限制，不利于合伙关系的形成，从而支持了奥本海默关于婚姻的经济成本和不确定性假设的理论。