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Union status by years since cohabiting union formation: SIPP 1996, 2001, 20...
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Fig. 1 Union status by years since cohabiting union formation: SIPP 1996, 2001, 2004, 2008 panels
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 885–919.
Published: 21 June 2016
... formation. We examine the timing of entry into a first union (a married or a cohabiting union), the choice between marriage and cohabitation, and the timing of first marriage. Data from eight nationally representative surveys conducted in the Netherlands are pooled ( N = 39,777), with respondents being born...
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View articletitled, The Influence of Parental Education on Timing and Type of <span class="search-highlight">Union</span> <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span>: Changes Over the Life Course and Over Time in the Netherlands
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Marriage and Union Formation in the United States: Recent Trends Across Racial Groups and Economic Backgrounds
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1753–1786.
Published: 10 September 2020
... by presenting cohort estimates for people born between 1970 and 1997, who began forming unions between 1985 and 2015. Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we find that typical ages at marriage and union formation increased faster across these recent cohorts than across cohorts born between 1940 and 1969...
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View articletitled, Marriage and <span class="search-highlight">Union</span> <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span> in the United States: Recent Trends Across Racial Groups and Economic Backgrounds
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Union Formation in Later Life: Economic Determinants of Cohabitation and Remarriage Among Older Adults
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1103–1125.
Published: 02 May 2012
...Jonathan Vespa Abstract This study builds on Becker’s and Oppenheimer’s theories of union formation to examine the economic determinants of marriage and cohabitation during older adulthood. Based on the 1998–2006 Health and Retirement Study and a sample of previously married Americans who...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Union</span> <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span> in Later Life: Economic Determinants of Cohabitation and Remarriage Among Older Adults
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in The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands
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Published: 05 November 2013
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Migration and the Latino Family: The Union Formation Behavior of Puerto Rican Women
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 133–157.
Published: 01 February 1994
.... The study therefore is based on pooled data from comparable surveys undertaken in the two settings. These data allow for event history analyses that compare the union formation behavior of migrants with that of nonmigrants, and consider the role of migration in producing the observed union patterns...
View articletitled, Migration and the Latino Family: The <span class="search-highlight">Union</span> <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span> Behavior of Puerto Rican Women
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Union formation in fragile families
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 237–261.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Marcia Carlson; Sara McLanahan; Paula England Abstract In this article, we use data from a new longitudinal survey—the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study—to examine union formation among unmarried parents who have just had a child together. We used multinomial logistic regression...
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How an earnings supplement can affect union formation among low-income single mothers
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 451–478.
Published: 01 August 2003
... labor markets and local policy contexts are potentially important mediating characteristics of marriage and cohabitation. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 Single Mother Union Formation Welfare Policy Marital Dissolution Cohabitation Rate References...
View articletitled, How an earnings supplement can affect <span class="search-highlight">union</span> <span class="search-highlight">formation</span> among low-income single mothers
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in Microsimulation of Household and Marital Transitions Leading to Childlessness Among Dutch Women Born Between 1971 and 2000
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Published: 01 February 2022
Fig. 1 State space of household- and union-formation transitions leading to the birth of a first child. States 1 to 4 are transient, and state 5 is absorbing.
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Inequality in untransformed parental wealth (at union formation) by year (G...
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in The Wealth of Parents: Trends Over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth
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Published: 24 August 2020
Fig. 3 Inequality in untransformed parental wealth (at union formation) by year (Gini). The figure presents three-year average parental wealth at the year of union formation. N = 803,185.
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Average men’s parental wealth/assets percentile at union formation by women...
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Published: 24 August 2020
Fig. 6 Average men’s parental wealth/assets percentile at union formation by women’s parental wealth/assets percentile at union formation. The left panel shows the average wealth percentile of male parents calculated separately for each percentile of female partners’ parental wealth. The right
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Correlation between husband’s and wife’s parental wealth at union formation...
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Published: 24 August 2020
Fig. 7 Correlation between husband’s and wife’s parental wealth at union formation by year. In the left panel, year percentile is parental wealth measured at union formation, ranked within union cohort ( pw 1); year and age percentile is parental wealth measured at union formation, normalized
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 175–195.
Published: 19 January 2012
... new partnerships and have additional children in stepfamilies. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility may depend on the timing of union formation and parenthood. In this article, we estimate models of childbearing, union formation, and union dissolution...
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Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into Union
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 119–144.
Published: 11 January 2017
... from the literature. We argue that the inconsistency of findings for men is due to the fact that the selection process involved in union formation has been disregarded in earlier studies. We hypothesize that men’s educational attainment consistently and positively affects the transition to fatherhood...
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View articletitled, Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into <span class="search-highlight">Union</span>
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 137–160.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Fig. 1 State space of household- and union-formation transitions leading to the birth of a first child. States 1 to 4 are transient, and state 5 is absorbing. ...
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View articletitled, Microsimulation of Household and Marital Transitions Leading to Childlessness Among Dutch Women Born Between 1971 and 2000
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Educational Homogamy and Gender-Specific Earnings: Sweden, 1990–2009
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1197–1216.
Published: 24 January 2013
... that the effect is explained by marital selection processes rather than by partner education affecting earnings. The exception is hypogamy among the highly educated, for which there are strong indications that in comparison with homogamy and hypergamy, earnings grow slower after union formation. Table 1...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 49–72.
Published: 03 February 2011
... for union formation, to live independently, and to share with others. Migrant youth, and particularly Turkish and Moroccan youth, leave home at a significantly younger age than Dutch youth, given the relevant background variables. This is remarkable, given the older ages at which young people in the origin...
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Between Tradition and Modernity: Marriage Dynamics in Kyrgyzstan
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 861–882.
Published: 05 May 2015
...Lesia Nedoluzhko; Victor Agadjanian Abstract The demographic literature on union formation in post-communist Europe typically documents retreat from marriage and increase in cohabitation. However, sociological and anthropological studies of post-Soviet Central Asia often point to a resurgence...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1977–2007.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Gina Potarca Abstract Digital technologies govern a large part of our social lives, including the pursuit of a romantic partner. Despite recent inquiries into the social consequences of meeting online, what remains unclear is how the link between education and union formation varies in online...
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View articletitled, Online Dating Is Shifting Educational Inequalities in Marriage <span class="search-highlight">Formation</span> in Germany
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 147–169.
Published: 09 January 2020
...Martin Kolk; Gunnar Andersson Abstract In this study, we provide demographic insight into the still relatively new family form of same-sex marriage. We focus on period trends in same-sex marriage formation and divorce during 1995–2012 in Sweden and the role of childbearing in same-sex unions...
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View articletitled, Two Decades of Same-Sex Marriage in Sweden: A Demographic Account of Developments in Marriage, Childbearing, and Divorce
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