marriage/union formation and dissolution in the future years in the two-sex family household projection model is proposed. The … marital status transitions to ensure that the projected life course propensities of marriage/union formation and dissolution … are achieved consistently in the one-sex family status life table model. Procedures for estimating time-varying sex …

in the family system, suggesting that cohabitation may be a step on the way to marriage for some, but an end in itself … nonmarital fertility net of cohabitors’ potentially greater likelihood of marriage. I distinguish between intended and … childbearing outside of marriage by up to 50%, depending on race/ethnicity. These results speak to cohabitation’s evolving place …

[Background:] Previous studies suggest that in some countries socioeconomic differences in family formation are highly … therefore it is unclear how the gender differences and neutralities in family transitions combine into variation in longer … family-formation trajectories. [Objective:] We explore how family trajectories vary by educational attainment and gender. The …