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TWO TESTS OF DIVORCE BEHAVIOUR ON DANISH MARRIAGE MARKET DATA 421<br />

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of variables in sample by type of marriage.<br />

Mean Std. dev.<br />

Education of Husband<br />

Vocational 0.27<br />

Short 0.04<br />

Medium 0.04<br />

Long<br />

Differences if expected and realised earnings (in DKK 1980)<br />

0.05<br />

Positive deviation, wife 793 7711<br />

Negative deviation, wife 399 6156<br />

Positive deviation, husband 1374 22108<br />

Negative deviation, husband<br />

Age at marriage<br />

644 7187<br />

Wife < 21 0.20<br />

Wife between 21-25 0.23<br />

Wife between 26-30 0.08<br />

Husband < 21 0.10<br />

Husband between 21-25 0.23<br />

Husband between 26-30 0.12<br />

Husband more than 4 years older 0.23<br />

Wife more than 4 years older<br />

Unemployment and sickness<br />

0.03<br />

Wife’s yearly degree of unemployment 0.13 0.23<br />

Husband's yearly degree of unemployment 0.07 0.18<br />

Sickness, wife 0.18<br />

Sickness, husband<br />

Children<br />

0.12<br />

Own child younger than 2 0.26<br />

Own child between 3 and 6 0.15<br />

Own child between 7 and 9 0.05<br />

Own child between 10 and 17 0.04<br />

Presence of step children 0.13<br />

Premarital birth 0.26<br />

Other characteristics<br />

Province 0.53<br />

Duration of pre-marital cohabitation 2.82 2.78<br />

Mean duration of marriage (in years) 6.97 3.90<br />

Number of observations 10882<br />

In addition, we have dummies for educational attainment. The reference category is<br />

no education beyond primary school. Since some individuals may still be studying, I<br />

observe the current education at the time of observation. The educational variables are<br />

therefore also allowed to be time-varying. Next, I have six variables on children; an indicator<br />

variable for the presence of a child born to the couple younger than 3 years of

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