How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late … 1970s and the 1980s were significantly more son-biased than those of other ethnic groups in Russia. This finding suggests …

Russian governments to influence family formation models and fertility levels, in order to improve the demographic situation … over the period from 1917 until 2015. The overview pays close attention to such measures of demographic policy as marriage … and divorce regulation, support of families through family benefits and the tax system, reconciliation of family and work …

This article is devoted to investigation current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different … educational groups. Authors use qualitative and quantitative data. Quantitative data for this analysis come from the Gender and … Generation Survey in Russia (2004, 2007, 2011 waves). Semi-structured interview method (Moscow, 2010) was used to assess the …

Declining marriage rates and increasing cohabitation rates in modern Russia have become a trend that many scholars have … understand these changes and to answer the question on the nature of cohabitation in Russia. We aimed to find the difference … between some patterns of matrimonial events and to define the nature of cohabitations in Russia. For these purposes, we …