Overview
This open access book empirically tests one of the currently most powerful explanatory frameworks for changes in family formation around the world, the theory of the Second Demographic Transition
Presents an innovative, collaborative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas
Features cross-national, comparative research by using data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (IPUMS)
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Table of contents(10 chapters)
About this book
The book uses data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (IPUMS), a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. This large sample size enables an empirical testing of one of the currently most powerful explanatory frameworks for changes in family formation around the world, the theory of the Second Demographic Transition.
With its unique geographical scope, this book will provide researchers with a new understanding into the spectacular rise in premarital cohabitation in the Americas, which has become one of the most salient trends in partnership formation in the region.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED), Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain
Albert Esteve
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Free University of Brussels and Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Ron J. Lesthaeghe
About the editors
Ron Lesthaeghe's research has been in the various subfields of demography : historical, social and economic, and mainly covering populations of Europe and of sub-Saharan Africa. He has also done research in the fields of cultural change in Europe and of ethnic minorities studies. He is currently examining the Second Demographic Transition, which stresses the importance of ideational changes affecting demographic behavior related to the formation/dissolution of unions and marital/non-marital fertility behavior.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cohabitation and Marriage in the Americas: Geo-historical Legacies and New Trends
Editors: Albert Esteve , Ron J. Lesthaeghe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31442-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
License: CC BY-NC
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31440-2Published: 15 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81042-3Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31442-6Published: 03 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 291
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour