BACKGROUND
Barriers to intermarriage are more formidable than barriers to interracial cohabitation. Relative to same-race couples, a higher share of interracial couples cohabits with their nonmarital partners. This raises the question: Does the social significance of cohabitation differ for interracial and same-race couples?

OBJECTIVE
We compared the stability and outcome of first cohabitations prior to any marriage and the association between premarital cohabitation and subsequent marriage by couples’ joint race/ethnicity.

METHODS
Using data from the 2002 and 2006–2019 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), we estimated discrete-time event history models to predict differences in the stability of cohabitations and subsequent marriages by couples’ joint race/ethnicity.

RESULTS
The stability and outcomes of White–Black cohabitations were similar to those of same-race Black cohabitations, whereas the stability of White–Hispanic cohabitations fell in between those of their same-race White and Hispanic counterparts. Premarital cohabitation was generally positively associated with higher odds of marital dissolution, but it was negatively associated with the odds of marital dissolution for White–Black couples.



中文翻译：

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过渡到婚姻前后异族同居的稳定性和结果（作者：Kate Choi、Patrick Denice、Rachel Goldberg）

背景
通婚的障碍比异族同居的障碍更可怕。相对于同族伴侣，异族伴侣与非婚伴侣同居的比例更高。这就提出了一个问题：同居的社会意义对于跨种族和同种族的夫妇是否不同？

目的
我们比较任何婚姻前第一次同居的稳定性和结果，以及婚前同居与随后婚姻之间的关联，这取决于夫妻的共同种族/民族。

方法
使用 2002 年和 2006-2019 年全国家庭成长调查 (NSFG) 的数据，我们估计离散时间事件历史模型，以预测夫妻共同种族/民族对同居和随后婚姻稳定性的差异。

结果
白人-黑人同居的稳定性和结果与同种族黑人同居相似，而白人-西班牙裔同居的稳定性介于白人和西班牙裔同居之间。婚前同居通常与较高的婚姻解体几率呈正相关，但与白人-黑人夫妇的婚姻解体几率呈负相关。