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Sleep-Wake Concordance in Couples Is Inversely Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Markers

The degree to which couples are awake or asleep at the same time throughout the night affects nighttime blood pressure and systemic inflammation, two putative markers of cardiovascular disease.

Mar 14, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Sleep Concordance in Couples Is Associated with Relationship Characteristics

Sleep concordance provides a unique measure of couples' cosleep and varies depending on attachment style and relationship satisfaction.

Jul 8, 2015
Q&A

Your Questions About Sleep, Answered

RAND's Wendy Troxel, an expert on sleep, hosted an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit to answer questions about how to improve sleep health, what to do about a snoring partner, and more.

Jul 1, 2015
Commentary

HeForShe Can Start at Home

It's hardly shocking that women do most of the housework, but a recent RAND Europe study found that even where the female partner earns more than the male partner, she still contributes a far larger proportion of her time to household tasks: 21 hours per week compared to 13.

Oct 30, 2014
Report

Report

Emerging trends in earnings structures of couples in Europe: Short Statistical Report No. 5

This report explores the division of labour in the home and finds that domestic tasks are shared unequally between men and women. Women generally take on a larger share of the domestic work while men, regardless of income, take on a lesser share.

Oct 29, 2014
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Role of Perceived Partner Alliance on the Efficacy of CBT-I: Preliminary Findings from the Partner Alliance in Insomnia Research Study (PAIRS)

Despite cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) being effective, barriers to adherence have been documented.

Jan 1, 2014
Journal Article

Journal Article

Emotional Distress and Cognitive Functioning of Older Couples: A Dyadic Analysis

This article examines the relationship between cognitive functioning and emotional distress in a sample of 2,684 married couples from the 2006 and 2008 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging.

Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article

Journal Article

Applying Risk Assessment to Secure the Containerized Supply Chain

Discusses risk assessment and the container transport industry. The global flow of containers represents the lifeblood of modern economies, rendering the global containerized supply chain a potentially attractive target.

Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article

Journal Article

Measuring Cohabitation in Add Health

Cohabitation is swiftly and increasingly becoming a normative experience, and researchers have been forced to respond quickly to keep up with the rapid changes. The authors document cohabitation data from the recent third wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).

Jan 1, 2007
Report

Report

Beyond single mothers : cohabitation and marriage in the AFDC program

Beyond single mothers : cohabitation and marriage in the AFDC program

Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article

Journal Article

Attitudes, Values, and the Entrance Into Cohabitational Unions

This article argues that marriage and cohabitation are associated with important differences in work patterns, earnings, treatment of money, use of leisure time, social relations with the extended family, the division of household labor, and fertility.

Dec 1, 1995
Report

Report

Living Arrangements of Older Malaysians: Who Coresides with Their Adult Children?

Living arrangements of older Malaysians : who coresides with their adult children?

Jan 1, 1994
Journal Article

Journal Article

Attitudes, Values, and the Entrance Into Cohabitational Unions

Argues that marriage and cohabitation are associated with important differences in work patterns, earnings, treatment of money, use of leisure time, social relations with the extended family, the division of household labor, and fertility.

Nov 1, 1993
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Michael Pollard

Sociologist
Education Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology, Duke University; M.A. and B.A. in sociology, University of Victoria
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Melanie A. Zaber

Associate Economist
Education PhD in economics and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University; BS in economics, policy studies, Syracuse University
Periodical

Periodical

Tranquilizing Effect

U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher is expected to release a major report by the end of the year on strategies for treating violence as a disease--an approach he has long advocated. The report should reinforce the work of researchers across the country who, for the past decade, have been trying to understand ...

RAND Topic:
Cohabitation

Topic Synonyms:
Living Together

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