BACKGROUND Late age at marriage and rising rates of singlehood increasingly
characterize East Asian societies. For Japan, these are major contributors to the very low …

Objective This study investigates shifts in marriage desires during singlehood and the
potential consequences associated with these shifts in Japan, a country epitomizing later …

BACKGROUND Marriage is a central institution for social reproduction in East Asia. Until the
1970s and 1980s, marriage across much of East Asia was early and universal. In recent …

Research on mate selection rarely considers singles' preferences for their future partners'
family configurations and experiences. Using online dating records from a matchmaking …

Using pooled cross-sectional data from recent censuses and wage surveys, age-specific
models of marriage prevalence are estimated in order to examine whether rapid changes in …

Between 1975 and 1995, the singulate mean age at marriage in Japan increased from 24.5
to 27.7 years for women and from 27.6 to 30.7 years for men, making Japan one of the latest …

Is universal and early marriage still true in China after decades of dramatic socioeconomic
changes? Based on the 2005 Population Survey data, we find that by age 35 to 39 years …

From Collective Synchronization to Individual Choice Yong Cai and Wang Feng since 1950,
age at first marriage has risen noticeably in both affluent OECD nations and in emergent …

BACKGROUND Understanding the trend toward later and less marriage is particularly
important in low-fertility societies where alternatives to marriage are limited and childbearing …

OBJECTIVE Chinese media labels highly educated, urban women who are still single in
their late 20s as “leftover ladies.” We investigate whether indeed highly educated women …