Differences in the timing and pathway into family life provide insights into the social distance between majority and … group distinctions. We situate our study in Norway, a country on the forefront of family change with an increasingly diverse … propensities to form families via marriage or a nonmarital first birth among the majority population and the children of immigrants …

. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

financial aid to low-income households with children. In this study we assess the Family Security Act-a proposal presented by … stated objectives of increasing marriage rates and cutting child poverty at no cost to the government. The assessment is …, and marital status. We find that while the plan would be highly effective at increasing marriage, it would reduce child …

married daughters. For parents and their daughter’s family, the similarity in household inequalities is insignificant. The …

married daughters. For parents and their daughter’s family, the similarity in household inequalities is insignificant. The …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …

violence. Besides, factors related to marriage setting have a significant role in the effect of women’s superior status on …

contraceptives and women's empowerment affected individuals' preferences for dating, marriage and fertility. In this paper, we … investigate whether the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the 1980s onward, a non-monetary shock, affected people's preferences for marriage … data, we estimate the marriage gain in two different time spans, 1984 to 1991 and 1999 to 2010, respectively before and …