The obvious spurious factor here is that people who marry without cohabitating could be culturally more likely to stay in a bad marriage - for example religious people who don't believe in sex before marriage.
Can't read the article so maybe this is addressed.
I only saw it mentioned in one place, near the end:
We don’t know precisely why young women who marry directly in their 20s without cohabiting have comparatively low divorce rates. Is it less experience breaking up, fewer previous partners for comparison, a greater sense that marriage is a different relationship status, or the fact that such women are disproportionately religious[1]? It’s not clear.
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The obvious spurious factor here is that people who marry without cohabitating could be culturally more likely to stay in a bad marriage - for example religious people who don't believe in sex before marriage.
Can't read the article so maybe this is addressed.
I only saw it mentioned in one place, near the end:
[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jssr.12114?c...
the author did a twitter thread where he said they did religion didnt matter. Sadly you would have to dig to find it