In 1940, when gender specialization was high, there was a negative relationship between
education and marriage for women. College-educated women were least likely to be …

Do recent declines in first marriage rates signal that an increasing proportion of women will
remain single their entire lives, or merely that they are postponing marriage to older ages …

Using data from the Current Population Survey March Supplement 1999, this study
examines why married men earn more than men who have never married. We find that the …

This article examines the patterns and determinants of first marriage among black and white
women in the United States. Three major differences exist between the first-marriage …

The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage
and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer …

We document a negative association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent
likelihood of first marriage in the United States, controlling for a variety of potentially …

To address declining response rates and rising data-collection costs, survey methodologists
have devised new techniques for using process data (“paradata”) to address nonresponse …

The article discusses the change in the number of households in the US from 35 million in
1940 to 117 million in 2010 with population growth being outpaced by household growth in …

The Coale-McNeil nuptiality model is a particular case of the generalized log gamma
distribution model. In this paper, we demonstrate that recognition of this connection allows …

Iran's young men and women face serious challenges in their transitions to employment and
marriage. We study the factors that affect these transitions using the 2005 School-to-Work …