Winkler-Dworak, Maria; Engelhardt, Henriette - In: Demographic Research 10 (2004) 9, pp. 231-264
Period marriage rates have been falling dramatically in most industrial societies since the beginning of the 1970s. As has been shown in the literature, part of this decline is due to the postponement of marriage to later ages. However, the change in variance has been ignored so far. In the case...