The marriage market is a dynamic bilateral matching market with finitely lived participants. The growth rate of the number of marriages between two types of individuals estimates the systematic benefit to them delaying marriage for a period versus marrying immediately. Identification of the semi-parametric model is transparent. The model is estimated with 1990 US marriage data. The estimated mo...

Maternity histories from residents of a Pacific Island society, Tokelau, and migrants to New Zealand, are analysed using life table techniques. Inter-cohort differentials in patterns of family formation were found in the total Tokelau-origin population. The process of accelerated timing and spacing of pregnancies was more pronounced among migrants who tended to marry later, be pregnant at marri...

We use a 20 percent longitudinal sample of Canadian personal income tax returns to explore patterns and changes in marital status, with focus on cohort behaviour. define five different cohorts, each starting age 1995, follow over 20-year data period. consider compare the patterns, giving special attention stability married common law unions, for that purpose distinguishing unions same partner f...

BACKGROUND Child marriage, defined as marriage before age 18, is associated with adverse human capital outcomes. The child marriage burden remains high among female adolescents in Indonesia, despite increasing socioeconomic development. Research on child marriage in Southeast Asia is scarce. No nationally representative studies thus far have examined determinants of child marriage in Indonesia ...

To identify types of families, latent-class analysis was applied to (reported) marriage and (observed) parenting measures obtained during the infancy, toddler, and/or preschool years for 828 two-parent families participating in the NICHD Study of Child Care. Five types of families were identified: Consistently Supportive (i.e., good parenting, good marriage, 15% of sample), Consistently Moderat...

Marriage and marriage migration are often downplayed in the migration literature. The role of location in the decisionmaking underlying marriage migration, and the relations between marriage and labor migration, are little understood. Research that focuses on international marriages and on Western or capitalist economies has highlighted marriage as a strategy, but little attention is given to d...

BACKGROUND Some scholars claim that marriage is an outmoded institution, decoupled from the childbearing process in Sweden. However, it is likely that the presence of children is still linked to marriage, since most children born to cohabiting couples experience the marriage of their parents. The temporal ordering of childbearing and marriage may be informative as to the meaning of marriage. OB...

Objective: This study aims to describe the educational gradient and role of homogamy in divorce risk Czech Republic. Background: The Republic underwent a social transformation 1990s, which resulted significant change many demographic trends. In contrast, trend seems have been less affected. My aim is evolution patterns during late phase post-communist transformation. Method: Register data on ma...

Developmental ideas and models concerning family life have been disseminated widely around the world where they have become forces for both ideational and behavioral change. In this paper, we examine the ways in which ideas about marriage have been influenced by these ideas of development in Nepal, where, for centuries, young age at marriage, arranged marriage, and polygamy have been common pra...

The author of this book, who is Associate Professor of Sociology, University ' Michigan, is obviously aware that even in this large volume of 460 pages it ^ J be difficult to do justice to a subject of such magnitude and diversity as implieCL, the title. He has, therefore, limited his approach by focusing primarily on Amerl college students and graduates, both as material and audience. Within t...