Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines the evidence collected from the main stud...

Repartnering has become increasingly important in recent years as a result of a rise in divorce rates coupled with an increase in rates of cohabitation, a union type which research has demonstrated to be more unstable than marriage. Although a large body of literature exists on the study of remarriage, there is far less research which has investigated repartnering in the form of a cohabiting un...

This study examines female reproductive development from an evolutionary life history perspective. Retrospective data are for 10,847 U.S. women. Results indicate that timing of parental separation is associated with reproductive development and is not confounded with socioeconomic variables or phenotypic correlations with mothers’ reproductive behavior. Divorce/separation between birth and 5 ye...

Qatar society demonstrates an interesting opportunity to examine the impacts of recent socioeconomic developments on family cohesion and marriage formation. This study describes individual-level factors (e.g., education, occupation) societal-level religion, culture, norms) for marriages’ postponement among Qataris, which adversely individuals, families, entire society. Semi-structured interview...

The absence of a gendered analysis the effect marriage on voting is surprising given researchers’ cognizance heterogeneous effects range other social outcomes. In this paper, we shed new light spousal dependency by studying marital disruption, in form divorce, voter turnout. First, drawing Swedish populationwide data, use differential timing divorces relation to general elections generate more ...

OBJECTIVES For women, marriage before the age of 18 years has adverse consequences for physical, mental and emotional well-being and constitutes a barrier for continued education. According to a national survey, about 50% of all women in Eastern Turkey were aged under 18 years at first marriage. METHODS This study explored women's opinions and experiences of early marriage and culture-specifi...

Recent work in human behavioural ecology has suggested that analyses focusing on early childhood may underestimate the importance of paternal investment to child outcomes since such investment may not become crucial until adolescence or beyond. This may be especially important in societies with a heritable component to status, as later investment by fathers may be more strongly related to a chi...

The economic status of a family has an important bearing on how many children they have, want, and expect and on the timing of family growth-the age at marriage, whether or not the mother was premaritally pregnant, and on the time interval between marriage and successive births. This is one of the findings from a study, made by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, of mot...

Past research has consistently documented the positive relationship between a transition to marriage and psychological well-being. In this study, we separate the depressed from the nondepressed to assess whether the benefits marriage has for psychological well-being depend on premarital depression. We also examine whether the effect of marital quality in moderating the psychological consequence...

Over the past few years the issue of child marriage has received growing political and programmatic attention. In spite of some progress in a number of countries, global rates have not declined over the past decade. Knowledge gaps remain in understanding trends, drivers and approaches to ending child marriage, especially to understand what is needed to achieve results on a large scale. This com...