Does Partnership Exogamy Increase the Risk of Separation? The Impact of Cultural Dissimilarity on Partnership Dissolutions in Sweden 1990-2005
In this paper the connection between exogamy and partnership dissolution is analyzed using individual level register data for natives and immigrants moving to Sweden after 1968. We study both formally married and cohabiting unions, from the birth of the first child until dissolution of the partnership. Using event history models we study the impact of type of union (endogamous, exogamous with a na