The hazards of partnership dissolution in Britain: a comparison of second and first marriages

This paper investigates whether second marriages differ from first
marriages in the dissolution risk and its determinants. Using
data from British Household Panel
Survey, a simultaneous hazard model for the risk of ending a first
and a second marriage is estimated. Separately for men and women,
the effects of predictors are compared across marriages. The model
takes into account unobserved heterogeneity. Cross-equations
unobserved heterogeneity is not statistically different from zero.
Cohabitation before marriage affects first and second marriage
dissolution risk differently. It increases the hazard of first
marriage dissolution, but reduces the hazard of second marriage
dissolution.