Moving from cohabitation to marriage: effects on relationship quality

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Serial Cohabitation and the Marital Life Course (2008, unknown): “To be sure, such discussions have already begun with recent attempts to classify different types of cohabiting unions (see Brown 2000, 2004; McGinnis, 2003).”
Does Premarital Cohabitation Predict Subsequent Marital Stability and Marital Quality? A Meta‐Analysis (2010, background): “Some research on long-term cohabitors (those who do not necessarily go on to marry someone) indicates their relationships are indeed less stable, less committed, and have lower relationship quality compared to marriages (Brown, 2004b; Bumpass & Sweet, 1989; Nock, 1995; Sarantakos, 1991; Stafford, Kl”
Spillover and Crossover Effects of Work-Family Conflict among Married and Cohabiting Couples (2018, background): “…also confirms our prediction that higher levels of commitment, relationship closeness, and intimacy among married people coupled with the increased emphasis on freedom and selffulfillment among cohabitors (Brown 2003, 2004; Brown et al. 2015) might result in PEs being stronger for married couples.”
Sliding Versus Deciding: Inertia and the Premarital Cohabitation Effect. (2006, background): “Brown found that individuals without plans to marry their partners showed lower relationship quality than those who did not cohabit prior to marriage (Brown, 2004; Brown & Booth, 1996).”