Additional Thoughts about The Importance of Common Family Background for the Similarity of Divorce Risks of Siblings

In this article, we further discuss the substantive and statistical issues raised in the articles by Farrell and Snijders. We point out where we agree and disagree with the two commentators. In addition to responding to a variety of issues that were raised, we point out where we believe additional studies may be particularly fruitful. We conclude that we believe that combining multi-level analyses with event-history analysis is potentially a very useful approach for future research.