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From Zero to Sixty in Four Decades but the Same Time to the Finish Line: Change and Stability in the Type and Timing of First Partnership Across Canadian Cohorts
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Wright, Laura A. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | • This trend has slowed among those born in the 1970s • Increases in cohabitation have offset declines in marriage for women, but less so for men • The proportion of women forming any type of union by age 35 has remained relatively stable over birth cohorts. • Among men, increases in the proportion forming cohabiting unions has not kept pace with decreases in marriage formation, leading to a higher proportion of men remaining single at age 35. • Changes across cohorts are more dramatic among the Q-born, but the trend has slowed among the most recent birth cohort • The trend across birth cohorts towards starting conjugal life through cohabitation is more dramatic among those born in Q. • However, increases in cohabitation as first union type have slowed for the Q-born in the most recent cohort, and partnering patterns in Q and the rest of Canada have stopped diverging. • Educational differences depend on gender • For men, across all cohorts, higher education is associated with a higher propensity to marry rather than cohabit. Among more recent cohorts of men, low levels of education prevent union formation. • For women born between 1930 and 1959 there is a negative association between education and the likelihood of marriage but this reverses among more recent cohorts. Among more recent cohorts of women, those with the least education are the most likely to be partnered by age 35. • Median age at first marriage has increased dramatically, but median age at first union has remained remarkably stable • Median age at first marriage as increased to a greater extent among the Q-born, but median age at first union is younger on average than other Canadians. • The association between education and age at first union is generally positive and stable across cohorts but educational differences in age at first marriage have reversed across cohorts. MOTIVATION |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
