COHABITATION AFTER MARITAL DISRUPTION IN CANADA

Using recent Canadian national data, this study examines the cohabitat ional experience of 930 women and 650 men after they terminated a firs t marriage in the context of a marital search model. Our results sugge st an increasing trend of postmarital cohabitation for recent cohorts. The hazard rate of postmarital cohabitation varies, depending particu larly on time since marital disruption, age at marital disruption, and year of marital dissolution. The analysis shows no significant sex di fferences in the rate of postmarital cohabitation. The implications fo r these results are discussed.