Divorce, repartnering, and stepfamilies: A decade in review

RK Raley, MM Sweeney - Journal of marriage and family, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews key developments in the past decade of research on divorce,
repartnering, and stepfamilies. Divorce rates are declining overall, but they remain high and …

Cohabitation and marriage: Complexity and diversity in union‐formation patterns

S Sassler, DT Lichter - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely
reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing …

The economics of fertility: A new era

M Doepke, A Hannusch, F Kindermann… - Handbook of the …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-
generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities …

The age of adolescence

SM Sawyer, PS Azzopardi… - The lancet child & …, 2018‏ - thelancet.com
Adolescence is the phase of life stretching between childhood and adulthood, and its
definition has long posed a conundrum. Adolescence encompasses elements of biological …

The second demographic transition, 1986–2020: sub-replacement fertility and rising cohabitation—a global update

R Lesthaeghe - Genus, 2020‏ - Springer
The article considers the evolution of two “Second Demographic Tradition”(SDT) core
characteristics: fertility postponement and the rise of cohabitation, with particular attention …

The second demographic transition theory: A review and appraisal

B Zaidi, SP Morgan - Annual review of sociology, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
References to the second demographic transition (SDT) have increased dramatically in the
past two decades. The SDT predicts unilinear change toward very low fertility and a diversity …

The reversal of the gender gap in education and its consequences for family life

J Van Bavel, CR Schwartz… - Annual review of …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past, the gender gap in
education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western …

Babies, work, or both? Highly educated women's employment and fertility in East Asia

MC Brinton, E Oh - American Journal of Sociology, 2019‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Highly educated women's likelihood of combining childrearing with continuous employment
over the life course has increased among recent US cohorts. This trend is less evident in …

[کتاب][B] Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, causes, and consequences

M Kreyenfeld, D Konietzka - 2017‏ - library.oapen.org
In recent decades, levels of childlessness have been increasing rapidly in most European
countries. German-speaking countries seem to be at the forefront of this development, as …

Diverging destinies in east Asia

JM Raymo, H Park, J Yu - Annual Review of Sociology, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Research on diverging destinies provides a compelling and influential framework for
understanding relationships between socioeconomic bifurcation in family behavior and …