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Using complementary methods to test whether marriage limits men's antisocial behavior.

Sara R Jaffee¹, Caitlin McPherran Lombardi, Rebekah Levine Coley

¹Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. srjaffee@psych.upenn.edu

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Marriage significantly reduces antisocial behavior in men. This study used four methods to confirm that marriage, not just pre-existing traits, causes this decrease in men

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Criminology
Behavioral Science

Background:

Marriage is associated with reduced antisocial behavior in men.
Alternative explanations include selection into marriage or reverse causation.
Active genotype-environment correlations may influence marriage and behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To test the hypothesis that marriage causally limits men's antisocial behavior.
To rule out alternative explanations for the marriage-behavior association.
To examine the causal impact of marriage on antisocial behavior in a representative sample.

Main Methods:

Utilized four complementary quasi-experimental methods.
Employed lagged regression, propensity score matching, fixed-effects, and sibling difference models.
Analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).

Main Results:

All four methods consistently showed married men exhibit significantly less antisocial behavior.
Findings held across different analytical approaches and sample sizes (n=2,250 to 3,061).
Results replicated previous findings and extended them to a U.S. young adult population.

Conclusions:

Marriage exerts a causal influence in reducing men's antisocial behavior.
The findings support a causal link, diminishing alternative explanations.
Marriage acts as a significant protective factor against antisocial conduct in men.