Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage

The Influence of Parental Resources on the Timing of the Transition to Marriage

This paper studies the relationship of parental resources to the marital transitions of children. It extends past research by explicitly distinguishing various dimensions of parental resources and by taking parental preferences directly into account. We test models in which parental resources have additive effects on the timing of marriage and models in which parental resources interact with pa...

Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: evidence from Malawi.

This article examines the effect of AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population on marriage behavior among women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in the marriage market. A possible behavioral change in the marriage market in response to an increase in prime-age adult mortality is to marry earlier to avo...

Parental Wealth and Adult Children’s Welfare in Marriage

Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Coresidence with Parents, the “Comforts of Home,” and the Transition to Marriage among Japanese Women

Unlike their counterparts in most industrialized societies, Japanese women are spending an increasingly longer proportion of their young adult years unmarried and living with parents. In this paper, we develop hypotheses linking the “comforts of home” to later marriage in Japan. To evaluate these hypotheses, we use six waves of data from a panel survey of young women to estimate hazard models f...

Parental factors related to children’s reading: Evidence from comparing transnational marriage families and local families

The purpose of this study was to determine the parental factors related to children’s reading by comparing two types of families, transnational marriage families in which the mother was not born in Taiwan and local families. Data for this study came from the PIRLS 2006. There were 273 children from transnational marriage families. Children’s gender, mother’s education level and well-off conditi...