research and discussion, so that scholars can better understand marriage, family, household and community patterns in Europe …

’s marriage strategies. Diminishing options for legalising their status in Germany by other means make Cameroonians increasingly … dependent on sustaining a three-year marriage to a German wife. Mainly based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cameroon and … Germany, the present article explores the distribution of marriage over space and time as a means of securing the right to …

Japan is one of few developed countries in which marriage and higher earning potential among women are negatively … associated. As the proportion of births occurring outside of marriage remains low in Japan, fertility is still significantly … influenced by marriage trends, which are in turn influenced by societal expectations regarding the marriageability of educated …

the declines in sibling numbers and in rural residence discourage young adults from leaving home before marriage. The … practice of stem-family norms helps to explain the delay to some extent. Finally, marriage delay has a substantial impact on … later home-leaving as leaving home is closely linked with marriage in Japan. …

issues can arise in comparisons of union formation before and after first birth, marriage formation before and after home …

-called independence effect: If a wife enjoys a higher earning than her husband does, she gains less from marriage. It has also been argued …