world. Demographers have long been interested in marriage patterns, because variations in the timing of marriage and in the … now add new reasons for demographers to pay attention to age at marriage. Most notably, variations can signal profound …

This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is …

Declining marriage rates and increasing cohabitation rates in modern Russia have become a trend that many scholars have … higher their probability of starting of the first cohabitation and the lower their risk to have the first marriage. Our … analysis showed that a cohabitation is not yet a complete alternative to marriage, but it has a possibility of becoming it for …