Abstract
Most women experience changes in marital and parental status in young adulthood, but little is known about how these changes are associated with health or whether the associations vary according to age and working status. This study addressed these questions by using data from the 2012-2016 Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families (1,880 women or 5,310 person-wave observations). Applying fixed-effects regression models, the author first found that becoming a parent was associated with a decrease in self-rated health, which was exacerbated after the second birth. Second, marrying was associated with a decrease in stress, but the positive effects were offset by parenthood. Third, the negative correlation between marrying and stress was more pronounced when women were unemployed than when they were employed. This study advances the current literature on marriage, parenthood, and health by focusing on women in young adulthood, minimizing the potential role of health-related selection into marriage and parenthood, and factoring in the interdependence of marital and parental status in the analyses. The implications and limitations of the results are discussed.
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